Geography (19+) Archives - Classical Education Books https://classic.powertactics.com/product-category/books/age-19/geography-19/ Conveniently Canadian Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:21:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://classic.powertactics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/favicon-32x32.png Geography (19+) Archives - Classical Education Books https://classic.powertactics.com/product-category/books/age-19/geography-19/ 32 32 Never Cry Wolf https://classic.powertactics.com/product/never-cry-wolf/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/never-cry-wolf/#respond Thu, 24 Jun 2021 22:21:05 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=33999 Never Cry Wolf is a brilliant narrative on the myth and magic of wild wolves and man's true place among the creatures of nature, now available as a Penguin Modern Classic. Hordes of bloodthirsty wolves are slaughtering the arctic caribou, and the government's Wildlife Service assigns naturalist Farley Mowat to investigate. Mowat is dropped alone onto [...]

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Otherwise
Never Cry Wolf
The Farfarers
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be
Owls in the Family 
The Curse of the Viking Grave
The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float
The Black Joke
Lost in the Barrens 
Eastern Passage 

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]]> https://classic.powertactics.com/product/never-cry-wolf/feed/ 0 Otherwise https://classic.powertactics.com/product/otherwise/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/otherwise/#respond Thu, 24 Jun 2021 22:12:29 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=33994 A Canadian icon gives us his final book, a memoir of the events that shaped this beloved writer and activist. Otherwise is a memoir of the years between 1937 and the autumn of 1948 that tells the story of the events that forged the writer and activist. His was an innocent childhood, spent free of normal [...]

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Otherwise
Never Cry Wolf
The Farfarers
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be
Owls in the Family 
The Curse of the Viking Grave
The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float
The Black Joke
Lost in the Barrens 
Eastern Passage 

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]]> https://classic.powertactics.com/product/otherwise/feed/ 0 Hudson Bay https://classic.powertactics.com/product/hudson-bay/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 22:00:18 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=29017 In 1841, aged just sixteen, the intrepid young Scotsman Robert M. Ballantyne (1825–94) joined the Hudson's Bay Company. Posted immediately to North-Eastern Canada, he spent five years traversing the region's inhospitable terrain by sleigh and canoe. His journal and letters home were so evocative that, upon his return, he was persuaded to publish an account [...]

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]]> Combining anthropological observations with descriptions of landscapes, plants, and animals, the account was applauded by the Dundee Courier for ‘opening up a mine of information to the curious’ and ‘describing the everyday life of a novel and singular existence’ with ‘buoyancy and animation’.

Appearing within a year of the first edition in 1848, the second edition reproduced here is illustrated throughout with views and vignettes. ‘Free from tedious details and unnecessary wordiness’, Ballantyne’s fast-moving and readable narrative challenges many misconceptions about nineteenth-century Canada and its indigenous peoples.

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