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  • A French Girl On The Prairie

    An unusual and fascinating true story set within French and American history.

    by Fred Pirat ...
    In 1910, at only 12 years old Marie Delos leaves Paris for Montana with her mother, having arranged to meet up with a cousin. She tells the story of her incredibly hard life, in the middle of a spectacular and dangerous land. An unusual and fascinating narrative set within French and American history. ... Read more

    $6.73 CAD

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  • The Inconvenient Indian

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    by Thomas King ...
    WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor PrizeThe Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America.Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • People's History of Quebec, A

    by Jacques Lacoursière, Robin Philpot ...
    This lively guide to Quebec history tells the fascinating story of the settlement of the St. Lawrence River Valley over nearly 500 years. But it also tells of the Montreal and Quebec-based explorers and traders who travelled, mapped, and inhabited most of North America, and embrothered the peoples they met. Combining vast research and great story telling, Jacques Lacoursière and Robin Philpot ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Greatest Civilizations of the Americas: The History and Culture of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes over 50 pictures of the civilizations' art, ruins, architecture, and more. *Describes everyday life for the Maya, Inca and Aztecs, from language to diet. *Comprehensively covers the civilizations' most famous characteristics, including Mayan astronomy, the Aztecs' infamous human sacrifice rituals, and the Inca's Macchu Picchu.*Includes a Table of Contents When the Spanish arrived in the ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • Arctic Obsession

    The Lure of the Far North

    by Alexis S. Troubetzkoy ...
    More than an account of the human delusion and fortitude in penetrating one of the most inhospitable areas of the world, Arctic Obsession goes beyond the gripping history of northern exploration, of the searches for the Northwest and Northeast Passages.From early medieval times to the twenty-first century, what has been the beguiling attraction of the North? What manner of men were they who boldly ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taking Hawaii

    How Thirteen Honolulu Businessmen Overthrew the Queen of Hawaii in 1893, With a Bluff

    by Stephen Dando-Collins ...
    The true story of a queen deposed, a five-year police state, an attempted counter-coup, and the end of an independent nation.On a January afternoon in 1893, men hunkered down behind sandbagged emplacements in the streets of Honolulu, with rifles, machine guns, and cannon ready to open fire. Troops and police loyal to the queen of the sovereign nation of Hawaii faced off against a small number of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making Haste from Babylon

    The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History

    by Nick Bunker ...
    At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning of doom or a promise of salvation. Two years later, as the Pilgrims prepared to sail across the Atlantic on board the Mayflower, the atmosphere remained charged with fear and expectation. Men and women readied ... Read more

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  • Ghost Empire

    How the French Almost Conquered North America

    by Philip Marchand ...
    History, travelogue, and memoir combine in this illuminating journey in the footsteps of the great explorer La Salle.This is the extraordinary account of a personal and historical quest in which Philip Marchand retraces the seventeenth-century explorations of La Salle while he searches in the present day for vestiges of France’s lost North American legacy.After he explored the Great Lakes and the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • A Crucible of Fire

    The Battle of Lundy's Lane, July 25, 1814

    by Richard Feltoe ...
    Series Book 5 - Upper Canada Preserved — War of 1812
    From the Battle of Chippawa to Lundy’s Lane, A Crucible of Fire focuses on the period of the War of 1812 leading up to the siege on Fort Erie in September 1814.Following their invasion at Fort Erie and decisive victory at the Battle of Chippawa, an American army of over 5,000 men seemed poised to sweep across the Niagara frontier to Lake Ontario, link up with the American fleet, and complete the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Compact, Contract, Covenant

    Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada

    by J.R. Miller ...
    One of Canada's longest unresolved issues is the historical and present-day failure of the country's governments to recognize treaties made between Aboriginal peoples and the Crown. Compact, Contract, Covenant is renowned historian of Native-newcomer relations J.R. Miller's exploration and explanation of more than four centuries of treaty-making. The first historical account of treaty-making in ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Imperial

    by William T. Vollmann ...
    From the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border – a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardFor generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. It sprawls across a stirring accidental sea, across the deserts, date groves and labor camps of ... Read more

    Was $26.99 CAD Now $22.99 CAD

  • The Sundance Kid: The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh

    The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh

    by Donna B. Ernst, Dan Buck, Anne Meadows, Paul D. Ernst ...
    He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kid—whose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaugh—led a fuller life than history or Hollywood has allowed.A relative of Longabaugh through marriage, Donna B. Ernst has spent more than a quarter century researching his life. She now brings to print the most thorough account ever of one of the West’s most infamous outlaws, tracing his ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD