C Grant Robertson: 3 books

Robertson begins the difficult task of chronicling the history of England with the ascension of George I. The years 1714 to 1815 comprise a period of history brimming with commanding personalities and significant events—the author treats all important subjects thoroughly, with an interesting section on constitutional growth and development.

A review in Outlook magazine of this 1918 biography of the great Prussian statesman and political architect of modern Germany declared: "The present volume, coming when one is viewing the wreck of Bismarck's Empire, has a perspective denied to its predecessors."  The New York Times wrote: "The actual Bismarck . . . stands revealed to us in this vivid and scholarly volume."

Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made...