Harold Horwood: 2 books
Plunder & Pillage
Atlantic Canada's Brutal and Bloodthirsty Pirates and Privateers
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
For over three hundred years, lawlessness in Canada flourished off Canada's east coast. Pirates roamed the North Atlantic, and master storyteller Harold Horwood recounts their action-filled careers, crimes and violent deaths. Privateers-licensed by governments to harass the enemy-aimed to capture...
Bartlett
The Great Explorer
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
This is the story of the greatest Canadian ice captain who ever lived--the greatest, by general consent, of any nationality in this century. Robert Bartlett took ships to the north coast of Ellesmere Island, sledged to within 150 miles of the North Pole, made twenty-two voyages into the Canadian Arctic,...