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William Osler: A Life in Medicine
Author: Michael Bliss
ISBN-10: 0802085415
ISBN-13: 9780802085412
Published: 2002-04
Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr
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In his time the most famous physician in the world, Canadian-born William Osler (1849-1919) is still the best-known figure in the history of medicine. This biography by Michael Bliss draws on many sources to recreate Osler's life and medical times for a new generation. At Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as regius professor at Oxford, Osler was idolized by two generations of medical students and practitioners, for whom he came to personify the ideal doctor. His quest was to bring high standards and scientific methods into general practice in the medical world and to give teaching hospitals a solid place in the education of doctors. The publication of his book, "The Principles and Practice of Medicine" (1892), established him as the authority of modern medicine, a position he held well into the new century.
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August Gale: A Father and Daughter's Journey into the Storm
Author: Barbara Walsh
ISBN-10: 0762761466
ISBN-13: 9780762761463
Published: 2011-10-18
Publisher: Globe Pequot
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An award-winning journalist's voyage into her family history and her quest to face the storms she encounters there. A great Father's Day book.
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A New Kind of Monster: The Secret Life and Shocking True Crimes of an Officer . . . and a Murderer
Author: Timothy Appleby
ISBN-10: 030788872X
ISBN-13: 9780307888723
Published: 2011-04-05
Publisher: Broadway
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Ripped from the headlines, the horrific and astonishing true story of the double life of Russell Williams, who was at once a respected figure in the Canadian military and a ruthless sado-sexual serial criminal and murderer.In the annals of psycho-killers, Colonel Russell Williams may well be unique. A decorated air force colonel, Williams was, for years, living a double life as a sado-sexual home invader, burglar, pedophile, and, ultimately, murderer. A model officer and elite pilot, he was trusted with flying international dignitaries including Queen Elizabeth, as well as commanding Canada's most important military airbase. Yet his dark and violent secret life included breaking into 82 homes of girls and women; thefts of vast amounts of lingerie (which he dressed in); two bizarre sexual assaults that left an uncomprehending Ontario village on a knife's-edge; and eventually, two rape-murders. When police raided Williams's home--a home he shared with his wife, a respected professional in her own right who was apparently completely unaware of her husband's unconscionable double life--they found hundreds of pairs of women's underwear, meticulously organized and catalogued. In this book, veteran Globe and Mail crime reporter Tim Appleby chronicles a true story that could have been lifted from the darkest pages of pulp fiction, one that offers fascinating--and troubling--insights on human psychopathology.
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Honey, Let's Get a Boat... A Cruising Adventure of America's Great Loop
Author: Ron Stob
ISBN-10: 0966914031
ISBN-13: 9780966914030
Published: 2003-06-01
Publisher: Raven Cove Publishing
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This is the story of a couple's travels on a forty-foot trawler cruising 6300 miles and 145 locks around the eastern part of North America known as America's Great Loop or the Great Circle Cruise. Their nautical ineptitude is evident from the beginning, but pulling from their personal and collective strengths, the authors overcome doubt, a lack of experience, and real and imagined horrors. The odyssey is told the way life hands out its adventures -- sometimes humorously, sometimes tragically, but always memorably. The writing is light and appealing, but there is a serious strain running through the book for those who relish history and descriptions of the landscape. Astute and attentive to detail, they chronicled events and kept an account of expenses, equipment and charting. As a result, the appendix/guidebook is worth the price of the book for anyone interested in planning their cruise. Topics include necessary charts and guidebooks, information on locks, setting an itinerary, resource addresses and websites, details on equipment and the best place to be educated about boating. The book has full-color inserts with black and white photographs interspersed throughout.
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The Mad Trapper of Rat River: A True Story of Canada's Biggest Manhunt
Author: Dick North
ISBN-10: 1592281176
ISBN-13: 9781592281176
Published: 2003-11-01
Publisher: The Lyons Press
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They called it The Arctic Circle War. It was a manhunt the likes of which we will never see again. The quarry, Albert Johnson, was a loner working a string of traps in the far reaches of Canada's Northwest Territories, where winter temperatures average forty degrees below zero. The chase began when a Mountie came to ask Johnson about allegations that he had interfered with a neighbor's trap. No questions were asked. Johnson shot Officer Millen dead through a hole in the wall of his log cabin. A vicious firefight ensued. When the Mounties returned with reinforcements, Johnson was gone, and The Arctic Circle War had begun. It was a forty-eight-day odyssey across the harshest terrain in the world. On Johnson's heels were a corps of Mounties and an irregular posse on dogsled, supplied by airplanes dropping food. Johnson, on snowshoes, seemed superhuman in his ability to evade capture. The chase stretched for hundreds of miles, and during a blizzard crossed the Richardson Mountains, the northernmost extension of the Rockies. It culminated in the historic shootout at Eagle River. There will never be another chase like it.
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Dangerous River, The
Author: R.M. Patterson
ISBN-10: 1894898869
ISBN-13: 9781894898867
Published: 2009-02-05
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
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R.M. Pattersons bestselling book The Dangerous River is back in print in its unabridged version and ready to take readers down the treacherous and challenging waters of the Nahanni River once again. Written with Pattersons characteristic sharp wit and observation, The Dangerous River chronicles the year he spent battling the temperatures and wild waters as he canoed down the Nahanni in 1927. Patterson originally travelled to Canadas Northwest Territories with hopes of finding gold in the river and clues to the mysterious murder of a prospector. Instead, he fell in love with the landscape and through his meticulously recorded journals and hauntingly beautiful photographs he introduced the world to the Nahanni River, now known as a prime destination for adventure seekers. Included in this newest printing are Pattersons own blackand- white photographs, including the first photos to be taken of the falls of the Nahanni.
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Over Prairie Trails (New Canadian Library)
Author: Frederick Philip Grove
ISBN-10: 0771099649
ISBN-13: 9780771099649
Published: 1991-06-01
Publisher: New Canadian Library
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Over Prairie Trails recalls Grove’s solitary and often perilous journeys by horse and wagon over 30-odd miles of Manitoba countryside that separated him and his wife during a year of hardship. Grove brings before the reader’s eye a landscape by turns magical and menacing, whose ever-changing moods demand of the traveller the utmost courage, resourcefulness, and endurance.Published in 1922, this memoir assured Frederick Philip Grove a place among the pioneers of Canadian realism.
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Grass Beyond the Mountains: Discovering the Last Great Cattle Frontier on the North American Continent
Author: Richmond P. Hobson
ISBN-10: 0771041705
ISBN-13: 9780771041709
Published: 1978-01-01
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
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Mordecai: The Life & Times
Author: Charles Foran
ISBN-10: 0676979653
ISBN-13: 9780676979657
Published: 2011-07-05
Publisher: Vintage Canada
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Foran's book is IT: the definitive, detailed, intimate portrait of Mordecai Richler, the lion of Canadian literature, and the turbulent, changing times that nurtured him. It is also an extraordinary love story that lasted half a century.The first major biography with access to family letters and archives. Mordecai Richler was an outsized and outrageous novelist whose life reads like fiction.Mordecai Richler won multiple Governor General's Literary Awards, the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, among others, as well as many awards for his children's books. He also wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life in Canada and abroad. In Mordecai, award-winning novelist and journalist Charlie Foran brings to the page the richness of Mordecai's life as young bohemian, irreverent writer, passionate and controversial Canadian, loyal friend and deeply romantic lover. He explores Mordecai's distraught childhood, and gives us the "portrait of a marriage" — the lifelong love affair with Florence, with Mordecai as beloved father of five. The portrait is alive and intimate — warts and all.From the Hardcover edition.
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Three Against the Wilderness (Classics West Collection)
Author: Eric Collier
ISBN-10: 1894898540
ISBN-13: 9781894898546
Published: 2007-04-15
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
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Eric Collier s riveting recollections about the 26 years that he, his wife Lillian and son Veasy spent homesteading in the isolated Chilcotin wilderness made for an international bestseller and one of the most famous books ever written about British Columbia. In the early 1930s, Collier and his family moved to Meldrum Creek, where the couple built their own log house and learned to live off the land. Fulfilling a promise to Lillian s grandmother to bring the beavers back to the area she knew as a child before the White man came, Collier was instrumental in the species survival. Collier s timeless tales about roughing it in the bush and the resourcefulness inspired by this lifestyle s challenges will engage readers young and old.
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