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Regiment

by Farley Mowat

23,84€ + 10% CARD

 The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (the Hasty Ps) was Canadaâ€™s most decorated regiment in the Second World War. In The Regiment, Farley Mowat, famed novelist and member of the regiment, movingly recounts the story of the Hasty Ps, telling the story of his fellow soldiers and their vital role in the Allied conquest of Italy.
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In Flanders Fields And Other Poems

by John Mccrae

19,86€ + 10% CARD

 John McCrae, a doctor and poet who served in Europe during the First World War, composed "In Flanders Fields", one of the most enduring literary expressions of the horrors of war. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War, In Flanders Fields and Other Poems is being reissued.
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Storm Below

by Hugh Garner

22,51€ + 10% CARD

 Originally published in 1949, Storm Below tells the story of a fictional Royal Canadian Navy ship and its crew. The adventure unfolds over six days of an escort run across the Atlantic Ocean to Newfoundland during the Second World War. The ship, the HMCS Riverford, is a composite of the vessels, mostly corvettes, that author Hugh Garner served on during his time in the Canadian navy, and the Canadian sailors whose experiences he relates are masterfully drawn from the crewmen he knew during his months at sea. In his preface to Storm Below, his first novel, Garner says: "It takes all kinds to make a world, and it also takes all kinds to make a war - or fight one after some of the others make it.... They [his characters] are not even 'typical' sailors, if such exist. All I can say to justify them is that they are drawn in the image of hundreds who made up the Royal Canadian Navy. They do not need an apology - they were out there, and we won."
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Combat Journal For Place D'Armes - A Personal Narrative

by Scott Symons

23,84€ + 10% CARD

 Originally published in 1967, Combat Journal for Place d'Armes, set in Montreal, was initially met with shock and anger by most reviewers. As D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover once had, it challenged the attitudes and morals held by most people in its time regarding life and literature. Despite this initial reaction, the novel earned author Scott Symons the Beta Sigma Phi Best First Canadian Novel Award and went on to be regarded as one of the "most important statements about Canadian imaginative life in the 1960s." Both a study of the emergence of a character's true self through his homosexual experiences and his critical examination of Canadian, and especially French-Canadian, culture and traditions, Place d'Armes was named one of the top hundred most important books in Canadian history. Peter Buitenhuis, the late autho ran dformer head of Simon Fraser University's English department, has written that Symon's novel is "a defiant assault on the Canadian Bourgeois mentality" that "celebrates human sexuality and spirtuality with all the gusto that language can command."
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Men Of The Last Frontier

by Grey Owl

21,19€ + 10% CARD

 In 1931 Grey Owl published his first book, The Men of the Last Frontier, a work that is part memoir, part history of the vanishing wilderness in Canada, and part compendium of animal and First Nations tales and lore. A passionate, compelling appeal for the protection and preservation of the natural environment pervades Grey Owls words and makes his literary debut still ring with great relevance in the 21st century. By the 1920s, Canadas outposts of adventure had been thrust farther and farther north to the remote margins of the country. Lumbermen, miners, and trappers invaded the primeval forests, seizing on natures wealth with soulless efficiency. Grey Owl himself fled before the assault as he witnessed his valleys polluted with sawmills, his hills dug up for hidden treasure, and wildlife, particularly his beloved beavers, exterminated for quick fortunes.
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Deserter

by Douglas Lepan

11,91€ + 10% CARD

 Returned from the ravages of war, met with a city that offers him only despair, a young man finds himself caught between two opposing worlds.
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Flying A Red Kite

by Hugh Hood

11,91€ + 10% CARD

 Canadian author Hugh Hoodâ€™s first collection of short stories.
In Flanders Fields And Other Poems

by John Mccrae

7,94€ + 10% CARD

 John McCrae, a doctor and poet who served in Europe during the First World War, composed "In Flanders Fields", one of the most enduring literary expressions of the horrors of war. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War, In Flanders Fields and Other Poems is being reissued.
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God'S Sparrows

by Philip Child

23,84€ + 10% CARD

 A raw and trying account of faith and family plunged into the fires and futility of the First World War. A modern classic, this is a novel rich in compassion and firm in its belief in the human spirit.
Regiment

by Farley Mowat

11,91€ + 10% CARD

 The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (the Hasty Ps) was Canadaâ€™s most decorated regiment in the Second World War. In The Regiment, Farley Mowat, famed novelist and member of the regiment, movingly recounts the story of the Hasty Ps, telling the story of his fellow soldiers and their vital role in the Allied conquest of Italy.
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God'S Sparrows

by Philip Child

11,91€ + 10% CARD

 A raw and trying account of faith and family plunged into the fires and futility of the First World War. A modern classic, this is a novel rich in compassion and firm in its belief in the human spirit.
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Ringing The Changes - An Autobiography

by Mazo De La Roche

19,86€ + 10% CARD

 A rare insight into the intimate thoughts of Mazo de la Roche, and the private life she normally kept hidden. The author confesses how strongly she connected with her character Finch Whiteoak, her struggles with wanting to be a boy, and her complicated relationship with her cousin and adoptive sibling, Caroline.
Selected Writings

by A.J.M. Smith

6,61€ + 10% CARD

 Arthur James Marshall Smith prize-winning poet, essayist, influential anthologist, and critic died in 1980. His last book, The Classic Shade: Selected Poems, on which Selected Writings is based, stands as his final intention in the world of literature.To this long out of print book the editor has added original material by Smith in which he defined and advanced modernism in Canadian writing. This edition also includes annotation, an extended introduction, and a bibliography.
Canadian Exploration Literature - An Anthology

by Germaine Warkentin

9,26€ + 10% CARD

 A collection of early writing inspired by the opening of a continent. This book includes maps, notes, and thumbnail biographies of these early writers.
Empire And Communications

by Harold A. Innis

6,61€ + 10% CARD

 Empire and Communications is one of Inniss most important contributions to the debate about how media influences the development of consciousness and societies.
Firebrand - William Lyon Mackenzie And The Rebellion In Upper Canada

by William Kilbourn

11,91€ + 10% CARD

 Reveals William Lyon Mackenzie's complex character - able political editor, shrewd recorder of his times, efficient first mayor of Toronto, and gadfly of the House of Assembly. This book recreates the ill-fated Mackenzie-led march on Toronto during the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837.
In This Poem I Am - Selected Poetry Of Robin Skelton

by Robin Skelton

6,61€ + 10% CARD

 In a country in which poetry has been private and apologetic, Robin Skelton played the part of poet with grand style. In this selection of his best verse there are poems of 'high' and 'low' art, spells and prayers, meditations, shamanic maps, and, in the centre of the book, 'messages', those strange, inspired 'gifts' at the core of Skelton's art.
Donnellys

by James Reaney

7,94€ + 10% CARD

 A story of a secret society and a massacre that shocked the Canadian public. It comprises three tragedies including "Sticks & Stones", "St Nicholas Hotel" and "Handcuffs".
Mrs. Simcoe'S Diary

by Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe

7,94€ + 10% CARD

 Elizabeth Simcoe's diary, describing Canada from 1791 to 1796, is history written as it was being made. Created while she was seated in canoes and bateaux, this diary documents great events in a familiar way and explores to a side of Canadian history that is too little shown.
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All Else Is Folly - A Tale Of War And Passion

by Peregrine Acland

9,26€ + 10% CARD

 All Else Is Folly is a living memory of the Canadian experience in the First World War. Praised by Sir Robert Borden, this novel both commemoratesÂ and mourns the Canadian soldiers who fought for peace in a landscape of treachery.
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Ringing The Changes - An Autobiography

by Mazo De La Roche

7,94€ + 10% CARD

 A rare insight into the intimate thoughts of Mazo de la Roche, and the private life she normally kept hidden. The author confesses how strongly she connected with her character Finch Whiteoak, her struggles with wanting to be a boy, and her complicated relationship with her cousin and adoptive sibling, Caroline.
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Voyageur Classic Canadian Fiction 7-Book Bundle - All Else Is Folly / Pauline Johnson / The Town Below / Self Condemned / Storm Below / The Yellow Briar / Maria Chapdelaine

by Hugh Garner, Louis Hémon, Patrick Slater, Pauline Johnson, Peregrine Acland, Roger Lemelin e Wyndham Lewis

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 Voyageur Classics is a series of special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions by noted experts. This bundle contains some of the greatest Canadian fiction, including influential literature from Quebec (Maria Chapdelaine, The Town Below), a collection of the best of the legendary Pauline Johnson, Peregrine Acland’s gripping Great War novel All Else is Folly, a classic tale of Irish immigration (The Yellow Briar), and great novels from the renowned Hugh Garner (The Storm Below) and Wyndham Lewis (Self Condemned). Any reader with an interest not only in Canadian literature, but in great fiction in general, will find this collection of great works an essential addition to their collection. Includes <ul> <li>All Else Is Folly</li> <li>Pauline Johnson</li> <li>The Town Below</li> <li>Self Condemned</li> <li>Storm Below</li> <li>The Yellow Briar</li> <li>Maria Chapdelaine</li> </ul>
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Voyageur Canadian Essays & Criticism 2-Book Bundle - Selected Writings, A.J.M. Smith / The Kindred Of The Wild

by A.J.M. Smith e Charles G. D. Roberts

13,24€ + 10% CARD

 Voyageur Classics is a series of new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions. In this bundle we find two classic works of the art of the Canadian essay. Charles G.D. Roberts was a distinguished writer of his time who published more than forty volumes of poetry, romance fiction, and nature writing - making him one of the most popular writers of his time. He pioneered the animal story in which he went beyond surface elements of nature and endowed his animal "characters" with qualities of feeling and intelligence that brought them closer to their human cousins. Roberts’ career as a writer transcended his Canadian roots and he was internationally known and popular in America and England. Arthur James Marshall Smith - prize-winning poet, essayist, influential anthologist, and critic - died in 1980. His last book, The Classic Shade: Selected Poems, on which Selected Writings is based, stands as his final intention in the world of literature. To this long out of print book the editor has added original material by Smith in which he defined and advanced modernism in Canadian writing. Includes <ul> <li>Selected Writings, A.J.M. Smith</li> <li>The Kindred of the Wild</li> </ul>
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Voyageur Canadian History 2-Book Bundle - The Refugee / The Letters And Journals Of Simon Fraser, 1806-1808

by Benjamin Drew

13,24€ + 10% CARD

 Voyageur Classics is a series that issues special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions. In this bundle we find two classic works of Canadian historical writing. During three extraordinary years, 1805-1808, Simon Fraser undertook the third major expedition across North America, culminating in his famous journey down the river in British Columbia that now bears his name. Fraser’s exploratory efforts helped lead to Canada’s boundary later being declared at the 49th parallel. In this new volume, librarian and archivist W. Kaye Lamb provides a detailed introduction as well as illuminating annotations to Fraser’s journals. In the early 1850s, white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew was commissioned to travel to Canada West (now Ontario) to interview escaped slaves from the United States. In the course of his journeys in Canada, Drew visited Chatham, Toronto, Galt, Hamilton, London, Dresden, Windsor, and a number of other communities. Originally published in 1856, Drew’s book is the only collection of first-hand interviews of fugitive slaves in Canada ever done. It is an invaluable record of early black Canadian experience. Includes <ul> <li>The Refugee</li> <li>The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser, 1806-1808 </li> </ul>
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