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  • The Worst Journey in the World

    by Apsley Cherry-Garrard ...
    In 1910 famous explorer Robert Falcon Scott led the Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole. The expedition was part scientific and part adventure: Scott wanted to be the first to reach the pole.The expedition was beset by hardship from the beginning, and after realizing that they had been beaten to the pole by Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian Expedition, the party suffered a final tragedy: the loss of ... Read more

    $1.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Boy Erased

    A Memoir

    by Garrard Conley ...
    “This brave and bracing memoir is an urgent reminder that America remains a place where queer people have to fight for their lives… Equal parts sympathy and rage, Boy Erased is a necessary, beautiful book.” —Garth Greenwell“Every sentence of the story will stir your soul” —O MagazineThe New York Times bestselling memoir about a young man’s traumatizing experiences in gay conversion therapy... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Twin Cities across Five Continents

    Interactions and Tensions on Urban Borders

    Edited by Ekaterina Mikhailova, John Garrard ...
    Series series Global Urban Studies
    This international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities in different circumstances – from the emergent to the recently amalgamated, on 'soft' and 'hard' borders, with post-colonial heritage, in post-conflict environments and under strain.With examples from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America, North America and the Caribbean, the volume sees twin cities as ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman

    by Carol Garrard, John Garrard ...
    "A definitive treatment of one of the Soviet Union's most significant writers."—The Russian ReviewVasily Grossman (1905–64), one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, served for over 1,000 days with the Red Army as a war correspondent on the Eastern front. He was present during the street-fighting at Stalingrad, and his 1944 report "The Hell of Treblinka," was the first eyewitness ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 29 LOCKS

    by Nicola Garrard ...
    Fast-paced, tragic and tender, 29 Locks is an unflinching depiction of urban teen life.Growing up in Hackney with his loving but troubled single mum, fifteen-year-old Donny's life has been shaped by poverty, crime and casual violence, including grooming by a local gang. When his mum is jailed for drugs offences, Donny is fostered outside London to the Hertfordshire countryside. Life in the rural ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Twin Cities

    Urban Communities, Borders and Relationships over Time

    Edited by John Garrard, Ekaterina Mikhailova ...
    Series series Global Urban Studies
    This dynamic international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities on administrative and international borders across the world. Drawing on contemporary and historical examples, it documents constant and changing features of twinned communities over time.The chapters explore a variety of urban formations including independent cities located side-by-side; cities that have merged ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Worst Journey in the World

    by Apsley Cherry-Garrard ...
    Only twenty-four when he joined the Scott expedition, an intellectual Englishman desirous of feeding his passion for knowledge with first-hand discovery in Antarctica, Apsley Cherry-Garrard ultimately learned and endured enough to begin questioning everything he had ever known. From 1910 to 1913, this young man was a part of an expedition for penguin eggs that went fatally wrong. Cherry-Garrard ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe

    by Mary D. Garrard ...
    Series Book 15 - Renaissance Lives
    Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the pre-modern era. Her art addresses issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women’s problematic access to political power. Her forceful paintings with their vigorous female protagonists have excited modern audiences, especially feminists.This book breaks new ground by placing the artist in the context of women’s ... Read more

    $25.09 CAD

  • Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail

    or Prairie travel and scalp dances, with a look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire

    by Lewis Hector Garrard ...
    Wah-to-Yah is the only well-known book written by Garrard. It has won a secure place in the literature of the AmericanWest.On 1 Sept 1846, Garrard, 17 years old, joined a caravan in Westport Landing, Missouri to travel along the Santa Fe Trail toNew Mexico. He stopped off at Bent's Fort for two months and continued on to Taos with a company of Mountain Men to avengethe death of Charles Bent in the ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910-1913

    by Apsley Cherry-Garrard ...
    "The Worst Journey in the World" is a gripping account of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's harrowing experiences during the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica. The narrative captures the extreme challenges faced by the explorers, including brutal weather conditions, physical exhaustion, and the psychological toll of isolation. Cherry-Garrard, who undertook the perilous journey to collect Emperor ... Read more

    $1.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Infusion

    Edited by JF Garrard, Sophie Munk ...
    Series Book 4 - Ricepaper Magazine Books
    Embark on a profound journey through the intricate tapestry of the Asian diaspora, where stories of immigration, loneliness, and the resilience of small-town life converge in a captivating narrative.Through the lens of personal narratives and intimate experiences, this book delves into the multifaceted challenges faced by Asians navigating new lands. From the quiet corners of rural communities to ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Late Palaeolithic and Neolithic Communities of the Jordanian Steppe. The Azraq Basin Project

    Volume 1: Project Background and the Late Palaeolithic (Geological Context and Technology)

    by Andrew Garrard, Brian Byrd ...
    Series Book 13 - Levant Supplementary Series
    The natural arc of resource-rich land which forms the ‘Fertile Crescent’ of South-West Asia is regarded as the earliest centre of village-based farming in the world and has been the focus of much of our understanding of the transition from Epipalaeolithic hunter-gathers to Neolithic farmers. Beyond the Fertile Crescent is the first volume of the Azraq Project, a large-scale archaeological and ... Read more

    $44.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus