Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “rowland willard”
Skip side bar filters

  • Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico

    The Travel Diaries and Autobiography of Dr. Rowland Willard

    by Rowland Willard ...
    Series series The American Trails Series
    One of the first Anglo-Americans to record their travels to New Mexico, Dr. Rowland Willard (1794–1884) journeyed west on the Santa Fe Trail in 1825 and then down the Camino Real into Mexico, taking notes along the way. This edition of the young physician’s travel diaries and subsequent autobiography, annotated by New Mexico Deputy State Librarian Joy L. Poole, is a rich historical source on the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Undaunted Courage

    Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening

    by Stephen E. Ambrose ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Oak Island Obsession

    The Restall Story

    by Lee Lamb ...
    As Bob and Mildred Lee, they amazed audiences with their death-defying motorcycle act. In reality they were Bob and Mildred Restall, parents of three, who balanced their glamorous show-business career with a happy, stable home life.In October 1959, the Restalls embarked on the ultimate family adventure, as Bob led his family to the east coast of Canada to dig for the famous treasure of Oak Island. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dorothea's War

    The Diaries of a First World War Nurse

    by Dorothea Crewdson ...
    The evocative diaries of a young nurse stationed in northern France during the First World War, published for the first time. A rare insight into the great war for fans of CALL THE MIDWIFE.In April 1915, Dorothea Crewdson, a newly trained Red Cross nurse, and her best friend Christie, received instructions to leave for Le Tréport in northern France. Filled with excitement at the prospect of her ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Wisconsin 1 Step at a Time

    Taking Steps to Trample Muscular Dystrophy

    by Bradley Carlson ...
    Bradley Carlsons muscular dystrophy causes brutal leg cramps that leave him crumpled on the floor. He cant climb stairs and curbs, and sometimes he cant even move.But none of that stopped him from putting his best foot forward and walking through his home state of Wisconsin. He walked through 595 incorporated cities, trekking from Lake Michigan to the mighty Mississippi.During his journey, he ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Private Journal of William Reynolds

    United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

    by William Reynolds ...
    One of the finest nineteenth-century first-person narratives of a sea voyage in existence, and a principle source for Sea of Glory, The Private Journal of William Reynolds brings to life the boisterous world traversed by the six vessels that comprised America's first ocean-going voyage of discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. With great eloquence and verve Midshipman William ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • The Journal of William de Rubruck

    Account of the Mongols

    by William de Rubruck ...
    The Journal of William de Rubruck: Account of the Mongols. William of Rubruck (1220–1293) was a Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer. His account is one of the masterpieces of medieval geographical literature comparable to that of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta. William accompanied King Louis IX of France on the Seventh Crusade in 1248. On May 7, 1253, on Louis' orders, he set out from ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hearts

    Of Surgeons and Transplants, Miracles and Disasters Along the Cardiac Frontier

    by Thomas Thompson ...
    Pioneer heart surgeons and bitter rivals: The "thoroughly engrossing" true story of doctors Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley ( The New York Times Book Review).By 1970, the Texas Medical Center in Houston was the leading heart institute in the world, home to the field's two most distinguished surgeons: Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey and his young and ambitious disciple, Dr. Denton Arthur Cooley. Their ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The White Nile Diaries

    by John Hopkins ...
    It all began at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station, New York, in 1961 - Two Princeton graduates - John Hopkins and Joe McPhillips - have returned from Peru. Loathe to return to a life of work, marriage and mortgages, they are tempted by a mysterious letter from Kenya. Hatching a plan to ride a motorbike across North Africa, they buy a sleek, white R50 BMW and paint her name - 'The White Nile' ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Eating to Lose

    Healing From a Life of Diabulimia

    by Maryjeanne Hunt ...
    A hopeful and empowering memoir of one woman's struggle with diabulimia, an eating disorder linked to diabetes.Diabulimia is the dangerous and often fatal practice in which people with Type 1 diabetes deliberately give themselves less insulin than they need in order to lose weight. Maryjeanne Hunt started limiting her insulin intake at age 14 and spent 22 years abusing her body with sugar highs, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Chisholm Trail

    A History of the World's Greatest Cattle Trail

    by Sam P. Ridings ...
    This frontier classic is one of the best books written about the world’s greatest cattle trail, the Chisholm Trail, a trail that was approximately eight hundred miles long, running from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas. It is a comprehensive book about the cattle drives of our western frontier and the interesting characters associated with them. Such characters include Charles Goodnight, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Mier Expedition Diary

    A Texan Prisoner's Account

    by Joseph D. McCutchan ...
    Few episodes in Texas history have excited more popular interest than the Mier Expedition of 1842. Nineteen-year-old Joseph D. McCutchan was among the 300 Texans who, without the cover of the Lone Star flag, launched their own disastrous invasion across the Rio Grande. McCutchan's diary provides a vivid account of his experience—the Texans' quick dispatch by Mexican troops at the town of Mier, the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD