On his personal quest to check off the best of his home country, travel writer and host Robin Esrock catalogues must-sees, including nature, food, culture, history, adrenaline rushes, and quirky Canadiana. After spending years crafting the definitive Canadian Bucket List, he’s packed in enough for a lifetime, at least. In this special excerpt, Esrock takes us to the wild west and Alberta’s wide-open spaces and majestic peaks, including such expe ...
The Trans-Canada, the world’s longest national highway, comes to life in words and pictures. Russia has the Trans-Siberian Highway, Australia has Highway 1, and Canada has the Trans-Canada Highway, an iconic road that stretches almost 8,000 kilometres across six time zones. In the summer of 2012, on the highway’s 50th birthday, Mark Richardson drove its entire length to find out how the road came to be and what it’s now become. In his daily ac ...
Toronto is truly a city of communities. Designed for tourists and for residents, Toronto’s Many Faces is the one and only guide to the multicultural character of the city, featuring profiles of more than 60 ethnic communities, including local histories, festivals, food, and art. The book identifies each community – where its people come from, why, when, and where they settled in Toronto. The contribution of each community is also traced, with ...
Short-listed for the 2009 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize Much has been made about how the New China has become an economic juggernaut in today’s world while civil liberties and basic freedoms remain constricted. We know where the aging leadership has taken and is taking China, but what about the very young? What are they like? When JoAnn Dionne arrived in Guangzho, she came prepared to live and teach elementary school in a Communist count ...
Follow George Fetherling as he travels through Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia looking for any remaining traces of the Indochina that was. In Indochina Now and Then , George Fetherling recounts multiple journeys through Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, keeping an eye peeled and an ear cocked for whatever faint traces of French rule might remain. While doing so he searches diligently in village markets, curio shops, and rubbish bins, not to mention book ...
Маленькая повесть в жанре твёрдой НФ о приключениях девушки, которой не повезло с именем, зато повезло с упрямым характером, в двух внеземных колониях. На Земле Ахернара, где она родилась, у общества анархистов накопились социальные проблемы, которые она считает своим призванием как-то ослабить, несмотря на сопротивление антиполиции, Земля Антареса, колонизированная выходцами из её родного мира, не подаёт сигналов, и новая миссия героини – узнат ...
Uber 65 Minuten Horerlebnis mit mehr als 50 Insider-Tipps von und mit Burkhard Schmeer. Sie treffen Horst Mietzner, Franz Plasa, Curt Pomp und andere Luneburger Originale. ...
