A GLOBE 100 Best Book of the Year
In the grand tradition of Michener's Alaska and Rutherford's Sarum, bestselling authors David Cruise and Alison Griffiths have captured the essence of one of Canada's richest settings. Beginning in the dying era of the last Ice Age and spanning thousands of years, Vancouver starts with the story of the last survivor of a Siberian people and moves through history in a dynamic tapestry. Fascinating characters come to life, including a Russian cartographer, a Scottish trapper, a Chinese peasant boy and a young woman from the desperate streets of Vancouver's downtown eastside. All share a powerful attraction to this unique, storied place.
An absorbing historical chronicle, Vancouver is a tale of human struggle and adventure, and a dazzling feat of storytelling.

Vancouver: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Cruise, David

Griffiths, Alison

Genre Fiction

Harper-perennial

VANCOUVER A Novel (Signed)

World Literature

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited

Vancouver

HarperCollins Canada, Limited

Follows the human history of the city of Vancouver from the viewpoints of coastal tribes who are driven out by treasure seekers, marooned Russian explorers, Scottish fur trappers, Chinese peasants, and penny-stock promoters.

Harper

Vancouver is a startlingly beautiful city of dreams and desires. Its mountains, rivers, ocean, and islands are arresting to the eye and exciting to the soul. The long and varied human history of this magical place is irresistibly grand and eventful. Vancouver -- the city, the land -- has al-ways been a place of appetites, of licenses offered and liberties taken. Since the time the humans crossed the Bering Strait and journeyed down the Pacific Coast seeking a fabled land of plenty, Vancouver, caught between soaring mountains and a vast ocean, has been a destiny for the spirit.Beginning in the dying era of the last Ice Age, Vancouver unfolds with the story of Tooke, the last survivor of a Siberian people and ancestor to the first nations of Vancouver. Moving through history in a rich, ever-expanding tapestry, Vancouver reveals a fascinating cast of characters. Long before recorded history, a young girl faces the terrifying prospect of marriage into a faraway tribe. Hundreds of years later, a Georgian cartographer aboard a Spanish exploration fleet nearly meets his end at the hands of her descendants. In the passing of the next centuries, a Scottish trapper becomes the reluctant leader of a fur-trading outpost on Vancouver's shores, and a Chinese peasant boy seeks an elusive fortune. The burgeoning colony of Vancouver lures a turn-of-the-century British adventurer and a German noble. In modern times, a superstar singer and film actress meets her destiny in the form of a young native girl struggling to free herself from the city's impoverished downtown eastside. The characters of Vancouver are all vastly different, yet they all share something -- a powerful attraction to a grand and giving land. Their stories intertwine, touching the extremes of human experience: riches, bravery, betrayal, crime, passion, and forbidden love.

Lords of The Line is the story of the men who combined foresight, power, and wealth to create Canada's greatest institution - the CPR - and through it helped shape a nation. Six tough, arrogant and supremely powerful men, enormously influential in their own time and fascinating windows into Canada's history.

LORDS OF THE LINE - The Men Who Built the CPR

Penguin Books Canada, Limited

Portfolio Doctor

Penguin Canada (AHC)

Describes the 1873 RCMP mission to the Canadian frontier

The Great Adventure: How the Mounties Conquered the West

History

Americas

St Martins Pr

Masterful biography of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, focussing on the six Presidents who shaped it to their will: George Stephen, William Cornelius Van Horne, Thomas Shaughnessy, Edward Beatty, Buck Crump, and Ian Sinclair. With unparalleled access to corporate and private documents, the authors tell the story of the men who combined foresight, power and wealth to create Canada's largest institution -- the CPR -- and through it helped to shape the Nation's destiny. Fascinating insights into the railroad's history and into Canada's. With decorative end papers showing system map. 486 pages.

Lords of the Line: The Men Who Built the Canadian Pacific Railroad

VIKING

The Great Adventure : How the Mounties Conquered the West

Illustrated in black and white. SIGNED by both authors on the title page. Gift inscription, otherwise fine.

Viking - The Penguin Group

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Vancouver: A Novel

VANCOUVER A Novel (Signed)

Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver

LORDS OF THE LINE - The Men Who Built the CPR

Portfolio Doctor

The Great Adventure: How the Mounties Conquered the West

Lords of the Line: The Men Who Built the Canadian Pacific Railroad

The Great Adventure : How the Mounties Conquered the West