Western Provinces Books


Good Time Girls: Of the Alaska/ Yukon Gold Rush Best Price: $6.94 The Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush, a time at the turn of the century, when the gold camps were booming...	I Married the Klondike Best Price: $10.65 Like most people my age, I've seen old movies depicting the Gold Rush, but they were nothing...	Out There Best Price: $15.53 Well it started with Merle's Door. After that wonderful book I wanted to read more about the...	Klondike Women: True Tales Of 1897-1898 Gold Rush Best Price: $13.57 I really loved this book. I bought it in conjunction with a research project about Nellie...	Emily Carr: At the Edge of the World Best Price: $10.95 Shortlisted for the 2005-2006 Red Cedar Book Award, Nonfiction Selected as Honour Book by the...



Sailor on Snowshoes: Tracking Jack London's Northern Trail Best Price: $11.27 I probably wouldn't have purchased this book if I didn't know the author. That would have been...	Frank Barr: Bush Pilot in Alaska and the Yukon (Caribou Classics) Best Price: $4.25 Meet Frank Barr, who flew every early plane from the Jenny to the Super Cub, carrying passengers...	Cold Comfort: My Love Affair With the Arctic (Mcgill-Queen's Native and Northern Series) Best Price: $67.50 Rowley's fresh and colloquial style of narrative makes you feel at home in the arctic. While...	Stones, Bones and Stitches: Storytelling through Inuit Art (A Lord Museum Book) Best Price: $11.95 Did you know? -Cape Dorset boasts the largest number of artists per capita in Canada (22.7...	Robert Service: A Biography I have had a long interest in Robert Service. This book has only served to wet my appetite....



Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life Best Price: $22.00 If you are interested in trying to understand the Inuit sensibility this is a great read....	Love Every Leaf: The Life of Landscape Architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Best Price: $13.47 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, who has been a landscape architect for more than sixty years,...	Great Days in the Rockies: The Photographs of Byron Harmon, 1906-1934. Ed by Carole Harmon. With a Biography by Bart Robinson and an Appreciation by J (Canadian Regional Pictoral)	Nahanni Journals: R.M. Patterson's 1927-1929 Journals Best Price: $26.71 Raymond Patterson is a Londoner who finds his journey to Canada's wild Northwest Territories...	The Mad Trapper: The Incredible Tale of a Famous Canadian Manhunt (An Amzing Stories Book) Best Price: $7.90 This is the incredible story of Canada's largest manhunt. Hundreds of men spent 7 weeks tracking...

Klondike Gold Best Price: $3.52 Eureka! In 1897 gold was discovered in the Klondike, setting off a wave of gold fever. Thousands...	Beyond the Dance: A Ballerina's Life Best Price: $7.80 An interesting biography. Told in a positive manner that makes fine reading for young girls who...	Dangerous River: Adventure on the Nahanni The Oxford educated author, Raymond Patterson, chucked his staid life as London banker for the...	Winter Best Price: $10.81 Winter is the strange and haunting record of one man's experiences in the Far North. Intensely...	Faith of Fools: A Journal of the Klondike Gold Rush Best Price: $19.58 I was floored by this book. It is diary of a group of men traveling to the yukon in search of...

The Man Who Made Parks: The Story of Parkbuilder Frederick Law Olmsted Best Price: $12.99 The Man Who Made Parks is a beautifully illustrated and inspiring book for children. It tells...	Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic Best Price: $15.00 This is a true story, but reads like a novel. It is about the search for diamonds in northern...	A Happy New Year's Day Best Price: $38.18 The preparations for the joyous New Year’s Day celebrations of Roch’s...	We Feel Good Out Here (The Land Is Our Storybook) Best Price: $11.53 Julie-Ann Andr? is a Gwichya Gwich'in from Tsiigehtchic in the Northwest Territories. She is a...	The Lost Patrol: The Mounties' Yukon Tragedy This is an incredible tale of a Canadian Mountie patrol that disappeared in the northern...

The Matchless Six: The Story of Canada's First Women's Olympic Team Best Price: $0.90 It is July 1928, and Canada’s first women’s Olympic team —...	Bijaboji: North to Alaska by Oar Best Price: $14.46 If you've read "Row to Alaska By Wind & Oar" by Pete and Nancy Ashenfelter, you...	Champlain Best Price: $11.24 “One July day four hundred years ago, Samuel de Champlain stepped out of a small boat...	Bent Props and Blow Pots: A Pioneer Remembers Northern Bush Flying Best Price: $15.09 Crash landings were part of the job in the early 1930s, when Rex Terpening started out in arctic...	On the Trail of Robert Service (On the Trail of) Best Price: $8.48 Service went from bank clerk to cowboy to become the first million-selling poet. The early...

The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic Best Price: $4.49 Of the many, many books I've read involving Arctic expeditions and experiences, this one is one...	Season of Rage: Hugh Burnett and the Struggle for Civil Rights Best Price: $2.11 Much of the book consists of material on developments in civil rights generally, especially in...	Beyond Habitat by 20 Years/Special Anniversary Edition	The Golden Grindstone: One Man's Adventures in the Yukon (Arctic Adventure) Best Price: $4.77 Reviewed by Debra Gaynor for Reader Views (3/07) In 1897-1898 "would be miners ascended...	Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders (American Indian Lives) Best Price: $15.00 I appreciated all that the women shared regarding their Native history, culture, what it was...

I Came As a Stranger: The Underground Railroad Best Price: $8.50 Highly recommended, Bryan Prince's I Came As A Stranger: The Underground Railroad is a...	Laura Secord: A Story of Courage Best Price: $10.02 Laura Secord never thought of herself as brave. She was gentle, shy, and soft spoken. But Laura...	The Calling and The Spell Best Price: $25.00 The story of a scientific exploration to Baffin Island in 1962.	I Once Knew an Indian Woman (Tundra Paperback) Best Price: $12.29 A memoir of childhood summers spent in a Laurentian village and of an Indian woman who lived...	Lumberjack When William Kurelek was young, he went into the bush to work as a lumberjack twice. Realizing...

Breaking Free: The Story of William Kurelek Best Price: $10.71 Nominated in the nonfiction category for the 2004/2005 Red Cedar Book Awards (British Columbia's...	Susanna's Quill Best Price: $2.66 Shortlisted for the 2005 Young Adult Canadian Book Award Susanna's Quill is a work of...	Arctic Adventures with the Lady Greenbelly Best Price: $7.99 Ken Conibear, Northern pioneer, Rhodes Scholar and storyteller of life in Canada's far North,...	The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher: An Elizabethan Venture Best Price: $6.00 Privateer and adventurer Martin Frobisher undertook the search for a northwestern route to Asia...	Needle to the North

This Distant and Unsurveyed Country: A Woman's Winter at Baffin Island, 1857-1858 (Mcgill-Queen's Native and Northern Series) Best Price: $40.00	West Coast Chinese Boy Best Price: $19.23 Life in Vancouver’s Chinese community is revealed in this memoir by artist Sing Lim....	Klondike Paradise: Culture in the Wilderness Best Price: $11.98	Pioneer Girl Best Price: $10.05 In the late 1800s, Canada’s prairies were the destination for thousands of settlers....	Dangerous Encounters Best Price: $15.98 Having quit engineering, Bucher became involved in exploration of the Northland of Canada,...

The Mad Trapper of Rat River: A True Story of Canada's Biggest Manhunt Best Price: $13.92 Awesome read, very well written with plenty of facts to back up Mr. North's work. You appreciate...	Laird of the West Best Price: $19.95 Biography of David Laird	Pioneering on the Yukon 1892-1917 Best Price: $21.50 This is one of the greatest women's adventures of all time, and for sure, one of the greatest...	Two Women in the Klondike (Classic Reprint Series) Best Price: $27.65 Mary E. Hitchcock's TWO WOMEN IN THE KLONDIKE was originally published in 1899 and tells of how...	Canadian Eskimo Artists: A Biographical Dictionary: Pelly Bay (Inuit)

A Dog Puncher on the Yukon (Wolf Creek Classics) This harrowing tale is the story of a dog musher during the Klondike and Nome gold rushes....	Down North: Profiles from Alaska and the Yukon Best Price: $24.95	Second in command: A biography of Captain Francis Crozier, R.N., F.R.S., F.R.A.S With Dan Simmons' "Terror", readers are just now beginning to discover Captain Francis...

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