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  • Olive Odyssey

    Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit that Seduced the World

    by Julie Angus ...
    This Mediterranean travel memoir offers "an engaging mix of history, food travelogue, and botany lesson . . . There is much to enjoy here" ( Library Journal).Inspired by her Syrian forebears' intimate relationship with the olive, Julie Angus embarks on a voyage around the Mediterranean to unlock the secrets of the fruit that meant so much to them. Accompanied by her husband and their ten-month-old ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rowboat in a Hurricane

    My Amazing Journey Across a Changing Atlantic Ocean

    by Julie Angus ...
    An intrepid scientist and her fiancé— National Geographic's 2007 Adventurers of the Year—observe the changing ocean while rowing across the Atlantic.In 2005-06, Julie Angus and her fiancé Colin rowed 10,000 kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean—from Lisbon to Costa Rica—making Angus the first woman in the world to travel from mainland to mainland in a rowboat. The 145-day journey gave Angus, a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rowed Trip

    From Scotland to Syria by Oar

    Two bestselling authors combine their strengths in a travelogue, a search for roots, a romance — and a seat-of-your-pants adventure.One sunny day in 2006, Julie and Colin Angus were talking about the future, as newly engaged couples do. More unusually, they were at the time travelling together from Moscow to Vancouver by human power — boat, bike, and foot.That day, they were examining a road atlas ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Beyond the Horizon

    The Great Race to Finish the First Human-Powered Circumnavigation of the Planet

    by Colin Angus ...
    In June, 2004, Colin Angus left Vancouver on his bicycle. Nearly two years later, he rolled back in, looking like a castaway, and having completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.Angus cycled, skiied, and rowed a route that took him to Alaska, across the Bering Sea and the Siberian winter, across Europe from Moscow to Portugal, then across the Atlantic to Costa Rica–a 156-day ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Lost in Mongolia

    Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River

    by Colin Angus ...
    From the Yenisey’s headwaters in the wild heart of central Asia to its mouth on the Arctic Ocean, Colin Angus and his fellow adventurers travel 5,500 kilometres of one of the world’s most dangerous rivers through remotest Mongolia and Siberia, and live to tell about it.Exploration is Colin Angus’ calling. It is not only the tug of excitement and challenge that keeps sending him on death-defying ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Amazon Extreme

    Three Ordinary Guys, One Rubber Raft, and the Most Dangerous River on Earth

    The hair-raising true story of the first team to raft the entire length of the Amazon.To a trio of twenty-something adrenaline junkies, it sounded like an irresistible challenge: Tackle the Amazon with nothing more than a rubber raft between them and fate.In Amazon Extreme Colin Angus provides a you-are-there account of his expedition’s terrors and triumphs. In spite of Shining Path gunmen, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Brazil's Dance with the Devil

    The World Cup, The Olympics, and the Struggle for Democracy

    by Dave Zirin ...
    One of the Boston Globe's Best Sports Books of the Year: "Incisive, heartbreaking, important and even funny" (Jeremy Schaap, New York Times–bestselling author of Cinderella Man).The people of Brazil celebrated when it was announced that they were hosting the World Cup—the world's most-viewed athletic tournament—in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics. But as the events were approaching, ordinary ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

    An Illustrated History of Railway Stations in Canada

    by Ron Brown ...
    Brown celebrates the survival of our railway heritage in stations that have been saved or remain in use.Despite the "green" benefits of rail travel, Canada has lost much of its railway heritage. Across the country stations have been bulldozed and rails ripped up. Once the heart of communities large and small, stations and tracks have left little more than a gaping hole in Canada’s landscapes. This ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Getting Stoned with Savages

    A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu

    From the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals, the laugh-out-loud true story of his years on the islands of Vanuatu and Fiji, among cannibals, volcanoes . . . and the world’s best narcotics.With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost established himself as one of the most engaging and original travel writers around. Getting Stoned with Savages again reveals his wry wit and ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • The Unsolved Oak Island Mystery 3-Book Bundle

    The Oak Island Mystery / Oak Island Family / Oak Island Obsession

    This special three-book bundle tells the story of the mystery of Oak Island, Nova Scotia, where in 1795 three boys discovered the top of an ancient shaft. Two hundred years of courage, back-breaking effort, ingenuity, and engineering skills have failed to retrieve what is concealed there. Theories of what the treasure could be include Captain Kidd’s bloodstained pirate gold, an army payroll left ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Paddle Your Own Canoe

    One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living

    by Nick Offerman ...
    Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book.Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • Before Ontario

    The Archaeology of a Province

    Edited by Marit Munson, Susan Jamieson ...
    Series Book 72 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
    Before Ontario there was ice. As the last ice age came to an end, land began to emerge from the melting glaciers. With time, plants and animals moved into the new landscape and people followed. For almost 15,000 years, the land that is now Ontario has provided a home for their descendants: hundreds of generations of First Peoples. With contributions from the province's leading archaeologists, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD