The Trail of '98

The Trail of '98
Author: Robert William Service
Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap
Total Pages: 548
Release: 1910
Genre: Alaska
ISBN:

A vivid novel of men and conditions in the Klondike during the gold rush.

Life

Life
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1082
Release: 1928
Genre: American wit and humor
ISBN:

Alaska

Alaska
Author: Claus-M. Naske
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806125732

History of the state of Alaska from early to contemporary times, discussing its native peoples, sale to the United States, gold rush, quest for statehood, and oil boom.

The Border

The Border
Author: James Laxer
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2010-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 038567290X

Insightful, prescient and often funny, The Border explores what it means to be Canadian and what Canada means to the giant to our south. If good fences make good neighbours, do we have the sort of fence that will allow us to maintain neighbourly relations with the world’s only superpower? In The Border, well-known political scientist and journalist James Laxer explores this question by taking the reader on a compelling 5000-mile journey into culture, politics, history, and the future of Canadian sovereignty. Long ignored (or celebrated) as “the world’s longest undefended border,” the line between us and the US is now a stress point. The attacks on the World Trade Center announced to the world that North America is no longer a quiet neighbourhood and made our relationship with the US one of the most pressing questions facing Canadians. The porousness of the border is sure to be more problematic as the world becomes more troubled. Canadian officials complain of American pornography, drugs, untaxed cigarettes and, especially, guns moving northwards. For their part, the FBI and US Customs Service blame Canada for the infiltration of Chinese gangs smuggling immigrants and, more urgently, third-world terrorist cells based north of the border. Drawing deeply from history and anecdote, Laxer shows that for all our neighbourly good will, the Canada-US border has been contentious since the American War of Independence. In the mid-1800s the Americans tried to seize the west coast up to the 54th parallel. On the other hand, until 1931 the Canadian Army’s “Defence Scheme Number One” was to launch a surprise attack on the US with Mexico and Japan as allies. But beyond the fraught politics of the border, Laxer discovers another legacy as well. Travelling the country from Campobello island in the east to Richmond BC in the west all the way up to the Alaska panhandle in the north, Laxer meets people who live within a stone’s throw of the foreigners on the other side, and who share with him tales of friendship and rivalry, smuggling and trade that have shaped the character of their communities.

Selected Poems

Selected Poems
Author: Robert William Service
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1917
Genre: Authors, Canadian
ISBN:

Backpacker

Backpacker
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1973
Genre:
ISBN:

Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.