Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West
By: D'Arcy Jenish
3.32
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Epic Wanderer, the first full-length biography of mapmaker David Thompson (1770-1857), is set in th…
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1. Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.22
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a … read more
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"Anyone who has ever canoed on the upper Missouri River knows what a welcome sight a grove of cottonoods can be. They provide shade, shelter, and fuel. For Indian ponies, they provide food. For the Co…"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
2. A History of Canada in Ten Maps: Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land
By: Adam Shoalts
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The sweeping, epic story of the mysterious land that came to be called "Canada" like it's never bee… read more
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3. Pierre Berton's War of 1812
By: Pierre Berton
4.38
Format: 928 pages, Paperback
To commemorate the bi-centenary of the War of 1812, Anchor Canada brings together Pierre Berton's t… read more
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4. The Land Breakers
By: John Ehle
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
A motley band of characters makes its way into a high mountain valley in northwestern North Carolin… read more
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5. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
By: John Vaillant
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far… read more
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6. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
By: John Vaillant
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest… read more
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7. Lonesome Dove
By: Larry McMurtry
4.00
Format: 117 pages,
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning … read more
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8. Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
By: Hampton Sides
3.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won--a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory In the fal… read more
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9. Half Blood Blues
By: Esi Edugyan
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was… read more
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10. Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West
By: D'Arcy Jenish
3.32
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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11. Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot
By: Ken McGoogan
3.46
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of hono… read more
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12. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Hardcover
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13. Sphere
By: Michael Crichton
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the … read more
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14. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.88
Format: 461 pages, Hardcover
HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN? This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an … read more
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"W"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors--and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that inevitably entailed--they risked losing everything."-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust; Fear not the things thou suffer must; For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes. William Bradford Plymouth Colony Governor"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"For all they had suffered during those first terrible winters in America, their best years were behind them, in Leiden. Never again would they know the same rapturous sense of divine fellowship that …"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
15. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
By: Daniel James Brown
3.59
Format: 464 pages,
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more
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16. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
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17. The Armor of Light (Kingsbridge, #4)
By: Ken Follett
4.24
Format: 737 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited sequel to A Column of Fire, The Armor of Light, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge… read more
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18. Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
By: Adam Shoalts
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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19. The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
By: Stephen R. Bown
4.14
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay C… read more
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20. Permanent Astonishment
By: Tomson Highway
4.20
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most ac… read more
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21. Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson
By: Mark Bourrie
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Murderer. Salesman. Pirate. Adventurer. Cannibal. Co-founder of the Hudson's Bay Company. Known … read more
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