Company of Adventurers
10 best books like Company of Adventurers (Peter C. Newman): The Titanic Conspiracy: Cover-Ups and Mysteries of the World's Most Famous Sea Disaster, The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885, Who Killed Canadian History?, And No Birds Sang, I Married the Klondike, Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot, Ford: The Men and the Machine, Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike, Bir Mühendisin Dünyası, The Comeback
| Author | Robin Gardiner |
| ISBN | 1559723475 |
The Titanic Conspiracy raises many questions, including: Why was the ship's helmsman packed off to South Africa? And why did the ship's log go down with the ship? Why did Captain Smith accelerate into the ice field of which he had been warned many times? And why did he wait twenty-five minutes to start...
| Author | Pierre Berton |
| ISBN | 0385658419 |
In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just five years — exactly half the time stipulated in the contract. Pierre...
Who Killed Canadian History?
| Author | J.L. Granatstein |
| ISBN | 0006386075 |
In the 1960s, A.B. Hodgetts in his groundbreaking "What Culture? What Heritage?" bemoaned the loss of our history. Some 30 years later, in this brilliant and impassioned new evaluation, J.L. Granatstein points to an even more appalling situation in both the educational system and in our daily lives....
| Author | Farley Mowat |
| ISBN | 0811731456 |
In July 1942, Farley Mowat was an eager young infantryman bound for Europe and impatient for combat. This powerful, true account of the action he saw, fighting desperately to push the Nazis out of Italy, evokes the terrible reality of war with an honesty and clarity fiction can only imitate. In scene...
| Author | Laura Beatrice Berton |
| ISBN | 1550173332 |
In 1907, Laura Beatrice Berton, a 29-year-old kindergarten teacher, left her comfortable life in Toronto Ontario to teach in a Yukon mining town. She fell in love with the North--and with a northerner--and made Dawson City her home for the next 25 years. I Married the Klondike is her classic and enduring...
| Author | Ken McGoogan |
| ISBN | 0786711566 |
John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of honors and international fame. No explorer even approached Rae's prolific record: 1,776 miles surveyed of uncharted territory; 6,555 miles hiked on snowshoes; and 6,700 miles navigated in small...
Ford: The Men and the Machine
| Author | Robert Lacey |
| ISBN | 0316511668 |
Spanning more than a hundred years and four generations, the story of Henry Ford, the automobile company he created, and the dynasty he founded is one of the great dramas of our time, yet never before has it been told from beginning to end in all its richness. Now Robert Lacey has captured in one volume the...
| Author | Charlotte Gray |
| ISBN | 1582436118 |
Between 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North America. Within two years, Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, grew from a mining camp of four hundred to a raucous town of over thirty thousand people. The stampede to the Klondike was...
Yapımı yirmi yıl süren Büyük Piramit'in mühendisleri hangi şartlar altında çalışıyorlardı? Rakamlar nerede mühendislerin yardımına koşar? Neden sokaklarda güneş enerjisiyle çalışan otomobillere rastlamıyoruz? Uzay mekiği Challenger'ın fırlatıldığı...
Aboriginal peoples of Canada have been making a remarkable comeback from a terrifyingly low point of population, legal respect, and stability. This is a comeback to a position of power, influence, and creativity in Canadian civilization.
John Ralston Saul argues that historic moments...
| Author | Ruthanne Lum McCunn |
| ISBN | 0807071390 |
When German U-boats sank the British Ben Lomond in 1942, its sole survivor was a second steward, Poon Lim, who managed to stay alive for 133 days on a wooden raft. Sole Survivor, based on three years of interviews with Poon and his family, reconstructs his remarkable ordeal and the survival techniques...
| Author | Don Starkell |
| ISBN | 0771082568 |
It was crazy. It was unthinkable. It was the adventure of a lifetime.
When Don and Dana Starkell left Winnipeg in a tiny three-seater canoe, they had no idea of the dangers that lay ahead. Two years and 12,180 miles later, father and son had each paddled nearly twenty million strokes, slept on...
