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  • Forty Years Master

    A Life in Sail and Steam

    Series series Marine, Maritime, and Coastal Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University at Galveston
    Winner, 2016 the John Lyman Book Award, sponsored by the North American Society for Oceanic History.During Daniel O. Killman’s more than fifty years at sea, he was shipwrecked off Coos Bay, discovered gold in Alaska, was dismasted in a hurricane near Fiji, lost a rudder en route to Adelaide, had run-ins with bureaucrats, officials, and seamen, and found himself in court facing charges of murder, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Indifferent Stars Above

    The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

    From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Two Years Before the Mast

    The writings of Richard Henry Dana, Jr. telling the story of his experiences as a sailor on a two-year sea voyage. A thrilling tale of the early days of California, and of the terrors of sailing around Cape Horn in winter. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Finding Everett Ruess

    The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer

    by David Roberts ...
    **The definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age twenty have earned him a large and devoted cult following.“Easily one of [Roberts’s] best . . . thoughtful and passionate . . . a compelling portrait of the Ruess myth.”—Outside**Wandering ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Deadliest Sea

    The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History

    Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, in the Bering Sea and its remarkable aftermath in March 2008, Deadliest Sea is real life action and adventure at its finest. The full story of an amazing rescue—where extraordinary courage, ingenuity, will, and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Immortal Irishman

    The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

    by Timothy Egan ...
    In the New York Times bestseller The Immortal Irishman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan illuminates the dawn of the great Irish American story, with all its twists and triumphs, through the life of one heroic man.A dashing young orator during the Great Hunger of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Journal of a Trapper

    Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843

    Ever wonder how everyone made it west? They used trails beaten by such men as Osborne Russell. In 1830, sixteen-year-old Russell left his farm in Maine and ran away to the sea. He didn’t like it. He ended up joining an expedition headed to Oregon by way of the Rocky Mountains. Along the way, he acquired the skills necessary for survival. He also hunted buffalo and trapped beaver, looked for new ... Read more

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  • Jim Bridger - Mountain Man

    This antiquarian volume contains a detailed and insightful biography of Jim Bridger, written by Stanley Vestal. Vestal is well-known for his books about America. In Jim Bridger he paints a bold and authentic picture of a doughty explorer and of the richness of the American nation when it was still young. Full of colourful anecdote and fascinating insights into the life of Jim Bridger, this text ... Read more

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  • Sir John Franklin: Expeditions to Destiny

    Expeditions to Destiny

    Series series Amazing Stories
    After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage, the search for his two ships, Erebus and Terror, and survivors of his expedition became one of the most exhaustive quests of the 19th century. Despite tantalizing clues, the ships were never found, and the fate of Franklin’s expedition passed into legend as one of the North’s great and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting (Illustrated)

    In writing this book the author had only one end in view, that of relating in a simple way his experiences as a mountaineer. In these days, when such experiences are fast becoming a thing of the past, the story is of special interest. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Life as an Indian

    The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet

    by J. W. Schultz ...
    A fascinating memoir of a white man who gained access to the private lives of the Blackfeet Indians.First published in 1907, My Life as an Indian is the memoir of J. W. Schultz’s life as a young white man among the Piegan Blackfeet in the Montana Territory. Inspired by the journals of Lewis and Clark and George Catlin’s depictions of Indian life in his paintings, Schultz journeyed to the American ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Wild West History of Frontier Colorado

    Pioneers, Gunslingers & Cattle Kings on the Eastern Plains

    Jolie Anderson's collection of wild west tales focuses on the early frontier history of Colorado's plains and includes a look at some of the state's early pioneers like the "59ers" who promoted the state through travel guides and newspapers, exaggerating tales of gold discovery and even providing inaccurate maps to promote settlement in the plains; the perils of living and traveling the major gold ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus