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The First Five Years is the story of what Andreas Hossmann, an immigrant from Switzerland, experienced and learned during the five-year period he was requested by the Immigration Authorities to reside within Canada before becoming eligible to apply for Canadian Citizenship. It is an autobiographical novel in which the author tells what requirements existed for a person who wanted to immigrate to Canada a few decades ago and had to be fulfilled by that person before the Immigration Authorities granted permission to do so; how immigrants fought for acceptance into the Canadian society, were...

Having quit engineering, Bucher became involved in exploration of the Northland of Canada, primarily the high-Arctic. The story in hand is about a scientific exploration on the ice-covered offshores in the Queen Elizabeth Islands. It is not a scientific essay or just another adventure book. It is a reconstruction of an Arctic exploration that can never be restored or repeated in the way it was conducted, nor in its significance as a scientific endeavor--it was a first and only.
The main theme of the story revolves around the ways this remote and, at that time, mostly unexplored part of...