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1) The river
Author
Language
English
Description
"Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of...
2) White heat
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of an adventurist under her watch, half-Inuit Arctic guide Edie Kiglatuk teams up with police sergeant Derek Palliser when she realizes that the victim's tour group was searching for something specific.
3) Ice trap
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the height of his career, a British surgeon has found success in both the hospital and at home. He and his wife have everything they want out of life, except the child she longs for, the child Dr. Woodruff secretly believes he may never be ready to parent. Suddenly, the delicate equilibrium of their relationship is blown apart by the arrival of shocking news. Deep in the desolate sub-Arctic wilderness of Canada where Woodruff lived and worked years...
Author
Series
Covert-One series volume 7
Language
English
Description
"On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, researchers discover the wreckage of a mysterious aircraft, which the Russian Federation admits is a Soviet strategic bomber that disappeared more than fifty years ago while carrying two metric tons of weaponized anthrax. Desperate to prevent a political firestorm, the U.S. president dispatches a Covert-One team led by Lieutenant Colonel Jon Smith to the crash site. But others have reached the frigid, windswept...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 2 hr., 21 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Reunited after their winter on the ice road, Hugh, Alex, Rick, Jay, TJ, and Drew answer viewers' questions, relive their adventures, and share their tactics for driving big rigs on two-foot-thick ice over the waters of Northern Canada.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (752 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The series returns for a second high-tension season, but this time around, the job takes them even farther north, 100 miles inside the Arctic Circle. The adventure takes off in Inuvik, a small town where freak blizzards, polar bears, and more are common.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
94 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Join Luke and his family on a wild fishing adventure in the Canadian wilderness. This trip has it all: a moose mess, a motor mishap, atomic splashing. There's even a bear intruder. And of course the walleye put on an unforgettable fishing frenzy and Grandpa and Crystal hook the fish of a lifetime
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 470 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Ice road truckers follows the competition and camaraderie of six truckers over a season on the ice road, as they brave white-outs, thin ice, and the deadly cold to perform one of the most dangerous jobs in the world"--Container.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 188 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the competition and camaraderie of six truckers over a season on the ice road, as they brave white-outs, thin ice, and the deadly cold to perform one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Timed to release with the season three premiere, the most exciting episodes are available for the first time on one DVD.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
30 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
With a simple layout and easy-to-follow format, this beautiful book introduces young readers to a dozen birds that call the Arctic home. From the Long-tailed Duck and the Red-throated Loon to the Snowy Owl and the Rock Ptarmigan, this picture book features migratory birds as well as those that live in the Arctic year-round and is filled with fun, useful facts, including where to look for eggs and nests during the short Arctic summer and how to recognize...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Olaus J. Murie took his first field trip as a biologist to the Hudson Bay region in 1914, observing the land and the wildlife, and learning the ways of the native people of the North. Later expeditions took him to Labrador and many part of Alaska, a land he came to know well and love deeply. What Murie experienced on these travels was recorded in the sketchbooks and journal that he always carried with him. Along with his fascinating collection of...
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Contains twelve selections by turn-of-the-century American author Jack London, including the novel "The Call of the Wild"; the short story collection "The Son of the Wolf"; and two additional tales; and includes an essay about London by Carl Sandburg.
17) Global
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged ) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-old Sami, from a village along the Bay of Bengal, and fourteen-year-old Yuki, from Northern Canada, strive to protect their homes from the encroaching damage brought on by climate change.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of the Dene and Inuit activists who successfully overturned the colonial order and politically reshaped Canada--including his wife, Mary Simon, Canada's first Indigenous governor general. "This is a huge embrace of a book, irresistible on every level. . . . I couldn't put it down." --Elizabeth Hay, Giller-winning...
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