James Oliver: 203 books

* Book :  The Wolf Hunters * Biography * Bibliography A thrilling tale of adventure in the Canadian wilderness. Follow Roderick and his friends Wabi and Mukoki on their adventures in the pristine North. They fight voracious wolves, hostile natives, and the vicious elements of nature,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Thorpe and his hunting dog Kazan, one-quarter wolf and three-quarters husky, go to the Canadian wilderness where they meet McCready. The men appear to know each other and have an abusive relationship....

* Book : The Country Beyond * Biography * Bibliography A glass of wine once lost a kingdom, a nail turned the tide of a mighty battle, and a woman's smile once upon a time destroyed the homes of a million people. Thus have trivial things played their potent parts in the history of human lives; yet these things Peter did not know.

The follow-up to his popular 1914 novel Kazan, Baree, Son of Kazan follows the life of little Baree, the wolf/dog mix that is the son of the noble Kazan. Through a perilous chain of events, Baree becomes separated from the pack and is eventually rescued by a young girl and her father, a trapper. This gripping novel is a must-read for Jack London fans.

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Comme son frère Croc-Blanc dont Jack London nous a contési merveilleusement les évolutions psychologiques et lesmultiples aventures, Kazan, que dans ce volume nous présenteCurwood, est un de ces chiens-loups employés dans leNorthland américain (nord du Canada et Alaska) à tirer lestraîneaux....

Central to the development of the American legal system, writes Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts of race and property, but about the nature of American democracy itself. Prominent historians of slavery and legal...

The purpose of my qualitative research is to reveal how four African- American men overcame inferior education and Jim Crow laws. In the early twentieth century the social and economic conditions of African American men were appalling, yet they refused to accept the notion of inferior beings and second-class...

Les lecteurs retrouveront ici les personnages des Chasseurs de Loups. C'est pour découvrir une mine d'or, dont l'existence leur a été révélée dans des circonstances troublantes, que Roderick Drew, Wabi et leur fidèle guide Mukoki sont repartis affronter le froid, la traîtrise des Woongas et...

Dans les montagnes Rocheuses encore sauvages en ce début de XXe siècle, deux chasseurs - Jim et son ami Bruce - sont sur les traces de Tyr, le grizzly. Le gigantesque ours tient tête aux chiens les plus courageux pour protéger Muskwa, l'ourson orphelin. Pourtant, lorsqu'il fait face à Jim désarmé, Tyr l'épargne et lui tourne le dos.

* Book : Kazan, the Wolf Dog * Biography * Bibliography Kazan lay mute and motionless, his gray nose between his forepaws, his eyes half closed. A rock could have appeared scarcely less lifeless than he; not a muscle twitched; not a hair moved; not an eyelid quivered. Yet every drop of the...

* Book : The Grizzly King * Biography * Bibliography As in human life, there are tragedy, and humour, and pathos in the life of the wild; there are facts of tremendous interest, real happenings and real lives to be written about, and very small necessity for one to draw on imagination. (This book was the inspiration for French director Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1988 film The Bear.)

* Book : The Danger Trail * Biography * Bibliography A tale of love, Indian vengeance, and a mystery of the North. The danger trail is over the snow-smothered North. A young Chicago engineer, who is building a road through the Hudson Bay region, is involved in mystery, and is led into ambush by a young woman.

* Book : The Hunted Woman * Biography * Bibliography It was all new most of it singularly dramatic and even appalling to the woman who sat with the pearl-gray veil drawn closely about her face. For eighteen hours she had been a keenly attentive, wide-eyed, and partly frightened bit of humanity...