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  • A Short History of Progress

    by Ronald Wright ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water -- the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: where will this growth lead? can it be consolidated or ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Fiji Islands

    by Ronald Wright ...
    In little more than a century, Fiji islanders have made the transition from cannibalism to Christianity, from colony to flourishing self-government, without losing their own culture. As Ronald Wright observes, societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that did, and often used this fact as an excuse to conquer, kill and enslave. Touring cities bustling with Indian merchants, quiet ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gold Eaters

    A Novel

    by Ronald Wright ...
    A sweeping, epic historical novel of exploration and invasion, of conquest and resistance, and of an enduring love that must overcome the destruction of one empire by anotherKidnapped at sea by conquistadors seeking the golden land of Peru, a young Inca boy named Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances. Forced to become Francisco Pizarro’s translator, he finds himself caught ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Scientific Romance

    by Ronald Wright ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE • WINNER OF THE DAVID HIGHAM PRIZE (UK) • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE GLOBE AND MAIL, THE SUNDAY TIMES, AND THE NEW YORK TIMESRonald Wright’s unforgettable chronicle of love, plague and time travel—in the tradition of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale.**It is 1999, and David Lambert, jilted lover and reluctant museum ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • What Is America?

    A Short History of the New World Order

    by Ronald Wright ...
    From the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of A Short History of Progress comes another surprising, frightening and essential book.The USA is now the world’s lone superpower, whose deeds could make or break this century. For better and worse, America has Americanized the world. How did a marginal frontier society, in a mere two centuries, become the de facto ruler of the world? Why do America’s ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Stolen Continents 10th Anniversary Edition

    Conquest and Resistance in the Americas

    by Ronald Wright ...
    Powerful and passionate, Stolen Continents is a history of the Americas unlike any other. This incisive single-volume report tells the stories of the conquest and survival of five great indigenous cultures—Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee, and Iroquois. Through their eloquent words, we relive their strange, tragic experiences—including, in a new epilogue, incidents that bring us up to the twenty-first ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Stolen Continents

    Conquest and Resistance in the Americas

    by Ronald Wright ...
    In many Eurocentric histories, Europe's discovery and conquest of the Americas is described as a great saga of achievement. In this seminal book, Ronald Wright tells the story of the people who already lived in the Americas at the time of the European conquest. It's a story of plague and invasion that crippled great civilizations and killed one fifth of the human race.Weaving together contemporary ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Time Among the Maya

    Travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico

    by Ronald Wright ...
    The Maya of Central America have been called the Greeks of the New World. In the first millennium ad, they created the most intellectually and artistically advanced civilization of the Americas. Throughout the ensuing centuries, as neighbouring empires fell in warfare and to the Spanish invasion, the Maya endured, shaken but never destroyed.In Time Among the Maya, Ronald Wright's journey takes him ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Cut Stones and Crossroads

    A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru

    by Ronald Wright ...
    Traveling through Peru, tracing the history of the Incas from their royal cities of Cusco and Machu Picchu to their mythic origin in Lake Titicaca, Ronald Wright explores a country of contrasts—between Spanish and Indian, past and present, coastal desert and mountainous interior.In his highly entertaining and perceptive account, Wright brings to life a complex culture, a land of ancient traditions ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Henderson's Spear

    by Ronald Wright ...
    In the tradition of Melville and Stevenson, a superb storyteller -- winner of the David Higham Prize for Fiction -- brings literary art of great range and beauty to a South Seas epic. Two tales of passion and intrigue, from the 1890s and the 1990s, reach around the world from Canada, England and West Africa to converge in the Polynesian islands.The story opens as a letter from Olivia, a Canadian ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • God's Creation

    Coloring Book and Story Time

    by Rev. Ronald Wright, Rev. Michael R. Grooms ...
    This book is a God-inspired story from Chapter 1 of the book of Genesis. The writing is rhythmic with meaning. The illustrations correspond to the manuscripts on each page. The book includes two sections of discussion with questions and answers. We pray that this book will shed light from a different perspective on God’s creation. This book is an interactive book for individuals to read, color, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Gold Eaters

    by Ronald Wright ...
    Narrated by Luis Moreno ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 48 min

    A sweeping, epic historical novel of exploration and invasion, of slaves and conquerors, and above all, an enduring love that must overcome the forging of an empire. Plucked from his small fishing village and captured by the conquistadors looking to plunder the gold of Peru, young Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances, caught up in history's throes. He finds himself at ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus