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 | Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy
In 1861, when war erupted between the States, President Lincoln made an impassioned plea for volunteers. Determined not to remain on the sidelines, Emma Edmonds cropped her hair, donned men’s clothing, and enlisted in the Union Army. Posing i...
Manufacturer: Gulliver Books Paperbacks
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 | Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo
In 2005 Kate Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the northern Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. Her camping equipment was rudimentary, her knowledge of Congolese customs even more so. She knew how to string a net and set a pit...
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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 | Champlain's Dream
In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain -- soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father of New France.Born on France's Atlantic c...
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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 | Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now
Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University--her education included wielding a...
Manufacturer: Anchor
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 | Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits
The daughter of a Algonquin mother and an Iroquois father, Catherine/Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680) has become known over the centuries as a Catholic convert so holy that, almost immediately upon her death, she became the object of a cult. Today she is ...
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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 | Good Time Girls: Of the Alaska/ Yukon Gold Rush
Morgan offers an authentic and deliciously humorous account of the prostitutes and other "disreputable" women who were the earliest female pioneers of the Far North.
Manufacturer: Epicenter Press
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 | People of the Deer (Death of a People)
In 1886, the Ihalmiut people of northern Canada numbered seven thousand; by 1946, when Farley Mowat began his two-year stay in the Arctic, the population had fallen to just forty. With them, he observed for the first time the phenomenon that would ...
Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
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 | The Wilderness World of John Muir
During John Muir's extraordinary life as a conservationist, he traveled through most of the American wilderness alone and on foot, without a gun or a sleeping bag. In 1903, while on a three-day camping trip with President Theodore Roosevelt, he convince...
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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