How to Move to Canada: A Primer for Americans
ISBN: 9780312349868 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An easy-to-use, step-by-step guide to calling Canada home More and more Americans are thinking of moving to Canada to find a job, attend colleges and universities, peace of mind---even retirement---and whatever their motivations, they will have to navigate the Canadian immigration, citizenship, and naturalization processes. So whether you're thinking about moving or already have your bags packed, How to Move to Canada is for you. It's a straightforward, friendly, informative handbook that delivers on its promise, providing readers with a thorough... An easy-to-use, step-by-step guide to calling Canada home More and more Americans are thinking of moving to Canada to f... |
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Exploring the Yukon River
ISBN: 9780595146307 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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47,37 zł |
Ireland, a Bicycle, and a Tin Whistle
ISBN: 9780773513440 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cycling around Ireland in search of traditional music, a tin whistle in his saddlebag, David Wilson follows the coastline from Presbyterian Islandmagee to Gaelic Cape Clear and back up north from Dublin to Belfast. Ireland, a Bicycle, and a Tin Whistle takes us on a journey across wild open spaces and through crowded pubs and festivals that pulse with energy and life. This is the Ireland of fiddles, harps and flutes, butterflies on bog roads, Country-and-Irish songs, Ulster Fries, storytelling, yarn spinning, and jigs and reels to the crack of dawn.
Cycling around Ireland in search of traditional music, a tin whistle in his saddlebag, David Wilson follows the coastline from Presbyterian Islandmage...
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104,09 zł |
A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador
ISBN: 9780773527041 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fascinating story of the first white person to cross Labrador In 1905 Mina Benson Hubbard became the first white person to cross Labrador, documenting her travels in the classic A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador. This reissue, edited and fully annotated by Sherrill Grace, makes the complete work available for the first time since the original 1908 publication and features an introduction that situates Hubbard's writing in the context of her life and times, making clear how unusual - and unexpected - it was for a woman to undertake such an expedition, let alone going on to write and...
The fascinating story of the first white person to cross Labrador In 1905 Mina Benson Hubbard became the first white person to cross Labrador, documen...
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166,62 zł |
Maps of Difference: Canada, Women, and Travel
ISBN: 9780773528666 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As well as providing vivid and sympathetic accounts of geography, peoples, and cultures, three women writers use their books to chart their own historical and social positions. In Maps of Difference Wendy Roy explores the ways in which Anna Jameson, Mina Hubbard, and Margaret Laurence were attuned to the cultural imperialism underlying their travel writing. Roy considers the connections Jameson makes between feminism and anti-racism in Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838), Hubbard's insights in A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador (1908) into her relationship with First...
As well as providing vivid and sympathetic accounts of geography, peoples, and cultures, three women writers use their books to chart their own histor...
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234,32 zł |
British Columbia Place Names: Third Edition
ISBN: 9780774806374 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elephant Crossing, Houdini Needles, Miniskirt, Billy Whiskers Glacier.There are just a handful of the many colourful names you will come across in this newest edition of British Columbia Place Names, which has been expanded to cover some 2,400 places acros sthe province. This BC classic and its predecessor, 1001 British Columbia Place Names, together have sold over 29,000 copies. British Columbia Place Names is truly the work of a lifetime. The authors, Philip and Helen Akrigg, have spent more than forty years researching BC place names, hunting through archives in Canada, the United... Elephant Crossing, Houdini Needles, Miniskirt, Billy Whiskers Glacier.There are just a handful of the many colourful names you will come across in ... |
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145,74 zł |
Overland to Starvation Cove: With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880
ISBN: 9780802073976 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years later, Heinrich Klutschak of Prague, artist and surveyor on a small expedition led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, stumbled upon the grisly remains at Starvation Cove of the last survivors among Franklin's men. Overland to Starvation Cove is the first English translation of Klutschak's account. A significant contribution to Canadian exploration history, it is also an important anthropological... In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years late... |
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166,62 zł |
The Company of Adventurers: A Narrative of Seven Years in the Service of the Hudson's Bay Company During 1867-1874
ISBN: 9780803263505 / Angielski / Miękka / 555 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Hudson's Bay Company had been operating for nearly two centuries when young Isaac Cowie joined it in 1867. He sailed from the Shetland Islands to Rupert's Land, finally reaching York Factory, where he awaited his assignment. Company of Adventurers describes the early, lusty history of the HBC and the years of Cowie's service, when manufactured goods were driving out the demand for furs and buffalo hides. It contains rare information about the Assiniboin and Plains Crees Indians during the period before their confinement to reservations. Alive to the historical and ethnographic value of...
The Hudson's Bay Company had been operating for nearly two centuries when young Isaac Cowie joined it in 1867. He sailed from the Shetland Islands to ...
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124,92 zł |
The MacKenzie
ISBN: 9780837158648 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published: New York: Rinehart & Co., 1949.
Originally published: New York: Rinehart & Co., 1949.
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328,86 zł |
On Tugboats: Stories of Work and Life Aboard
ISBN: 9780892725656 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tugboats hold a fascination not only for anyone who has worked aboard a vessel or around a harbor but for many land-bound folks as well. There is something about their chunky, powerful build and their often risky but vital work that excites our interest and admiration. The captains and crews of the tugboats are justifiably proud of what they do, and they have some great stories to tell about the ships and barges they tow or push; the harbors, storms, tides, and dangerous passages they must negotiate; the unions; the pilots; the different designs and capabilties of their boats; and the way the...
Tugboats hold a fascination not only for anyone who has worked aboard a vessel or around a harbor but for many land-bound folks as well. There is some...
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82,16 zł |
Exploring Canada with the Five Themes of Geography
ISBN: 9781404226692 / Angielski / Biblioteczna (library binding) / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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135,79 zł |
The Arctic Fox: Francis Leopold-McClintock, Discoverer of the Fate of Franklin
ISBN: 9781550025231 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Shackleton of his day, Leopold McClintock (1819-1907) from County Louth was the leading Arctic explorer of the Victorian era. He undertook four major voyages, epic sledge journeys, and was the first to bring definite information on the lost Franklin party. He then rose to admiral and advised Robert Falcon Scott before the Discovery expedition in 1901. After his death a memorial plaque was unveiled at Westminister Abbey, portraits were hung in the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the McClintock Channel in the Arctic was named after him. The Shackleton of his day, Leopold McClintock (1819-1907) from County Louth was the leading Arctic explorer of the Victorian era. He undertook four... |
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129,78 zł |
Arctic Adventures with the Lady Greenbelly
ISBN: 9781552124413 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ken Conibear, Northern pioneer, Rhodes Scholar and storyteller of life in Canada's far North, writes of his exciting, dangerous, and humourous experiences taking his boat, the Lady Greenbelly, over 1000 miles from Fort Nelson down the majestic and rugged Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean.
He took on this adventure for two reasons. First, he intended to carry freight to the Arctic communities with his newly acquired freight scow, the Lady Greenbelly, and then sell her there for a handsome profit. Second, Bill Sweet, an elderly, retired insurance salesman from Seattle who had read Ken's... Ken Conibear, Northern pioneer, Rhodes Scholar and storyteller of life in Canada's far North, writes of his exciting, dangerous, and humourous experie...
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Canadian Handbook and Tourist's Guide
ISBN: 9781557099662 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1867, The Canadian Handbook and Tourist's Guide gives descriptions of Canadian lakes and rivers and places of historical interest for the tourist and sportsman, including the best spots for fishing and shooting. Areas described in detail include: Quebec and its environs, Lower St. Lawrence, The River Saguenay, A list of salmon and trout rivers below Quebec with their distances, Eastern townships, Montreal to Lake Champlain and the River Richelieu, Montreal to Quebec, up the Ottawa, Brockville, Kingston, down the St. Lawrence, Toronto, Collingwood to Sarnia, Lake St. Clair, and...
Published in 1867, The Canadian Handbook and Tourist's Guide gives descriptions of Canadian lakes and rivers and places of historical interest for the...
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81,53 zł |
The USA and Canada 2003
ISBN: 9781857431513 / Angielski / Twarda / 616 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edition is a reference guide to the political, economic and social affairs of these two powerful North American nations. It provides geographical and historical introductions to each state/province, data on the economics, and a comprehensive and legislative directory section.
This edition is a reference guide to the political, economic and social affairs of these two powerful North American nations. It provides geographical...
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House of Angels
ISBN: 9780978399528 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an autobiographical account of the author's growing up in Prince Edward Island, Canada about 60 years ago, with pictures and accounts of a long-gone era. It then goes on to describe his physical wandering across Canada in the hippie generation and spiritual wandering as he eventually came back to the Christianity his childhood. As both a poet and a musician, the author includes about 20 of his poems and songs. In addition there are old photos from the Murray River area of the Island.
This is an autobiographical account of the author's growing up in Prince Edward Island, Canada about 60 years ago, with pictures and accounts of a lon...
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60,52 zł |
Across the Land... a Canadian Journey of Discovery
ISBN: 9781426915000 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Be ready to take a journey across Canada where you will encounter the people, places, history and idiosyncrasies of our great country, having some fun along the way.
Be ready to take a journey across Canada where you will encounter the people, places, history and idiosyncrasies of our great country, having some fun...
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159,59 zł |
Language Matters: How Canadian Voluntary Associations Manage French and English
ISBN: 9780774815048 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Canada is an officially bilingual country. But how do the voluntary associations that make up civil society manage linguistic diversity? In the 1960s, a study by Vincent Lemieux and John Meisel for the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism Commission revealed that Canadian associations were often paralyzed by internal conflicts over language. Language Matters examines whether this remains the case. The contributors present case studies or life histories of diverse associations, ranging from business organizations and municipal associations to groups concerned with... Canada is an officially bilingual country. But how do the voluntary associations that make up civil society manage linguistic diversity? In the 196... |
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156,16 zł |
Travels & Adventures: N Canada and the Indian Territories Between the Years 1760 and 1776
ISBN: 9781429022446 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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117,87 zł |
Belize: Reiseführer
ISBN: 9783837071924 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Was/Wer/Wann ist Belize? Fragen, die in Europa hochstens Insidern, Tauchern und Individualtouristen ein wissendes, genieerisches Schmunzeln entlocken. Gebettet zwischen Mexiko, Guatemala und der Bucht von Honduras ist dieses kleine Paradies in der "Alten Welt" weitestgehend unbekannt. Die Anreise uber die USA oder Mexiko und fehlende Reiseagenturen, die Belize verkaufen, haben diese Perle der Westkaribik bis heute vom europaischen Massentourismus verschont. Auf nur 22.696 Quadratkilometern machen gigantische Mayaruinen; das exorbitanteste Hohlensystem Zentralamerikas; das zweit grote...
Was/Wer/Wann ist Belize? Fragen, die in Europa hochstens Insidern, Tauchern und Individualtouristen ein wissendes, genieerisches Schmunzeln entlocken....
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158,53 zł |