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  • HMS Terror

    The Design, Fitting and Voyages of the Polar Discovery Ship

    by Matthew Betts ...
    In the summer of 1845, Sir John Franklin and a crew of 134 men entered Lancaster Sound on board HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in search of a Northwest Passage. The sturdy former bomb ships were substantially strengthened and fitted with the latest technologies for polar service and, at the time, were the most advanced sailing vessels developed for Polar exploration. Both ships, but especially HMS ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast

    A notable contribution to North American archaeological literature, The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast is the first book to integrate and interpret archaeological data from the entire Atlantic Northeast, making unprecedented cultural connections across a broad region that encompasses the Canadian Atlantic provinces, the Quebec Lower North Shore, and Maine*.*Beginning with the earliest ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • The Eternal Frontier

    An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples

    by Tim Flannery ...
    A comprehensive history of the continent, "full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America's geology, climate, and paleontology" ( The Washington Post Book World).Here, "the rock star of modern science" tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where the Wild Things Were

    Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

    For years, predators like snow leopards and white-tipped sharks have been disappearing from the top of the food chain, largely as a result of human action. Science journalist Will Stolzenburg reveals why and how their absence upsets the delicate balance of the world's environment. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Statues that Walked

    Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island

    T****he monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island’s barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient people who inhabited this tiny speck of land, the most remote in the vast expanse of the Pacific islands, have ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Before Ontario

    The Archaeology of a Province

    Edited by Marit Munson, Susan Jamieson ...
    Series Book 72 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
    Before Ontario there was ice. As the last ice age came to an end, land began to emerge from the melting glaciers. With time, plants and animals moved into the new landscape and people followed. For almost 15,000 years, the land that is now Ontario has provided a home for their descendants: hundreds of generations of First Peoples. With contributions from the province's leading archaeologists, ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Edge of Memory

    Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World

    by Patrick Nunn ...
    How much of the folk tales of our ancestors is rooted in fact, and what can they tell us about the future?In today's society it is the written word that holds the authority. We are more likely to trust the words found in a history textbook over the version of history retold by a friend – after all, human memory is unreliable, and how can you be sure your friend hasn't embellished the facts? But ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Human Shore

    Seacoasts in History

    Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun to take on new and potentially catastrophic dimensions. The latest generation of coastal dwellers lives largely in ignorance of the history of those ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Smitten by Giraffe

    My Life as a Citizen Scientist

    by Anne Dagg ...
    Series Book 22 - Footprints Series
    When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvellous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behaviour of giraffe in the wild. Subsequently, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey would be driven by a similar devotion to study the behaviour of wild apes.In Smitten by Giraffe the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • People of the Saltwater

    An Ethnography of Git lax m'oon

    A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn People of the Saltwater, Charles R. Menzies explores the history of an ancient Tsimshian community, focusing on the people and their enduring place in the modern world. The Gitxaała Nation has called the rugged north coast of British Columbia home for millennia, proudly maintaining its territory and traditional way of life.People of the Saltwater first ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Sloth Lemur's Song

    Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present

    A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island.Madagascar is a place of change. A biodiversity hotspot and the fourth largest island on the planet, it has been home to a spectacular parade of animals, from giant flightless birds and giant tortoises on the ground to agile lemurs leaping through the treetops. ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Archaeology of Ancient Australia

    by Peter Hiscock ...
    This book is an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the eighteenth century AD. It is the only up-to-date textbook on the subject and is designed for undergraduate courses, based on the author's considerable experience of teaching at the Australian National University. Lucidly written, it shows the diversity and colourfulness of the history of humanity in the ... Read more

    $75.99 USD