Captain Cook's World: Maps of the Life and Voyages of James Cook R. N.

Biographies & Memoirs

John Robson

Historical

Random House New Zealand LTD.

Their enemies branded them both murderesses, whores and daughters of the devil. Elizabeth’s supporters anointed her a hero and savior, while Mary’s faithful invested her as a saint and martyr. Reigning side by side, but yet never meeting face-to-face, these queens were inexorably linked in a tumultuous relationship that, until now, has never fully been revealed and explored.
 Elizabeth &amp; Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens is master biographer Jane Dunn’s richly textured portrait of two incredible women. A story of a relationship punctuated by reversals of fortune; murder mysteries; sexual intrigue; reckless behavior, heated battles and cold war, Elizabeth &amp; Mary is staged against a past as dark and dangerous as it was vibrantly alive.
Dunn shows the indissoluble bond between the queens was forged by two opposing forces; their shared inheritance and rivalry for Elizabeth’s crown set against their natural solidarity as ruling females in an overwhelmingly masculine world. She delves behind Elizabeth’s reputation as steely virgin queen, using her celibacy as a weapon, valuing reason and duty above all. She looks at Mary as celebrity queen, femme fatale and flawed heroine, a woman who capped the theatre of her death in a brilliant cloak of redemption. And she corrects many misconceptions about her subjects, revealing Mary as a more serious contender for power than had been previously thought, and Elizabeth as far more vulnerable than her formidable reputation.
Intelligent and completely riveting, this beautifully produced and lavishly illustrated book masterfully juxtaposes the histories of two remarkable women, culminating in tragedy, as Elizabeth the victorhesitantlysigned her cousin’s death warrant.

Elizabeth And Mary

DUNN, Jane

Community & Culture

HarperCollins, Publishers

In the Shadow of Silence is the candid account of an ordinary young woman’s extraordinary journey through the collapse of the Third Reich, arrest and internment as a political prisoner of the British Army of the Rhine. Through a series of poignant vignettes, the author describes what it was like to grow up in Nazi Germany, to witness Hitler Youth, anti-Semitism, Kristallnacht, carpet-bombing and mandatory labor service. Like millions of other Germans, her everyday life was directed and controlled by the absolute power of the National Socialist state. As the air war wore on, survival became the only imperative. Gertrud Mackprang Baer was a 19-year-old medical student at the University of Marburg, Germany, when, in 1944, the ongoing war forced the closure of all universities. To avoid compulsory labor ina munitions factory, she naively accepted a position with the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), one of Hitler’s shadowy and most dangerous SS-organizations. Although the Third Reich and the power of the SS-state stood on the fervent support of some 80 million Germans and Austrians, Gertrud Mackprang Baer became deeply troubled by their instant and collective tendency to deny any involvement in the Hitler era. With the mass deception permeating every facet of the social and political culture of the new German state, In the Shadow of Silence bears true witness to an exceptional era, by one who was there.

In The Shadow Of Silence

Baer, Gertrud

Ken McGoogan has done it againwritten a vivid, real-life adventure that restores an extraordinary yet forgotten figure to his rightful place in exploration history. Among fur-trade experts, Samuel Hearne is grudgingly recognized as the eighteenth-century British adventurer who, during a remarkable three-year odyssey, became the first European to reach the Arctic coast of North America. In Ancient Mariner, McGoogan demonstrates that Hearne was far more complex, accomplished and influential than the history books suggest.
Beginning with Hearne’s entry into the Royal Navy at twelve years of age, McGoogan paints an authentic portrait of eighteenth-century British life, both on and off the wooden sailing ships. After serving as a midshipman during the tumultuous Seven Years’ War, Hearne moved to London and, in 1766, just twenty-one, joined the Hudson’s Bay Company. Based at the company’s northernmost fort, an ambitious Hearne embarked on an overland quest for rich veins of copper supposedly located “far to the northward where the sun don’t set”and also to discover the Northwest Passage.
In his posthumously published journal, Hearne described the three-year odysseya harrowing journey marked by hardship, hunger and disappointment, and mitigated only by his friendship with the legendary Dene leader Matonabbee. Hearne trekked more than 3,500 miles. His epic adventure culminated in the infamous and still-controversial massacre at “Bloody Falls”an event that, as McGoogan shows, changed him forever.
Drawing on naval history, fur-trade history and literary history, McGoogan portrays Hearne as a skilled navigator, a pioneering anthropologist, a ground-breaking naturalist and a gifted natural artist. He fell in love with a native woman and never fully recovered after she died tragically.
 In a fascinating bit of literary detective work, McGoogan also determines that, having returned to London to live out his final days, Hearne met Samuel Taylor Coleridge and inspired the poet to write “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Suffused with McGoogan’s inimitable passion and insight, sparkling with discoveries and reinterpretations, Ancient Mariner is destined to become the non-fiction book of the fall season.

Ancient Mariner

McGoogan, Ken

History

Phyllis Bruce Books

The Hanging of Ang¨¦lique : Canada, Slavery and the Burning of Montreal

Cooper, Afua

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited

When Sir William Temple (1628â€“99) and Dorothy Osborne (1627â€“95) began their passionate love affair, civil war was raging in Britain, and their familiesâ€”parliamentarians and royalists, respectivelyâ€”did everything to keep them apart. Yet the couple went on to enjoy a marriage and a sophisticated partnership unique in its times. Surviving the political chaos of the era, the Black Plague, the Great Fire of London, and the deaths of all their nine children, William and Dorothy made a life together for more than forty years. Drawing upon extensive research and the Templesâ€™ own extraordinary writingsâ€”including Dorothyâ€™s dazzling letters, hailed by Virginia Woolf as one of the glories of English literatureâ€”Jane Dunn gives us an utterly captivating dual biography, the first to examine Dorothyâ€™s life as an intellectual equal to her diplomat husband. While she has been known to posterity as the very symbol of upper-class seventeenth-century domestic English life, Dunn makes clear that Dorothy was a woman of great complexity, of passion and brilliance, noteworthy far beyond her role as a wife and mother. The remarkable story of William and Dorothyâ€™s life togetherâ€”illuminated here by the authorâ€™s insight and her vivid sense of place and timeâ€”offers a rare glimpse into the heart and spirit of one of the most turbulent and intriguing eras in British history.

Read My Heart: A Love Story in the Age of Revolution

Harpercollins Canada

Clutching her small biscuit tin of food, her face almost hidden behind her kerchief, 15-year-old Annie Corches stepped onto the train that would carry her away from Dysart, Saskatchewan, far from the cruel and abusive aunt who was destroying her body and soul. Like her immigrant Romanian parents who arrived in Canada in 1909, Annie was terrified of what lay ahead, but even more so of what lay behind. Annie is Kenneth Radu's mother. The Devil Is Clever is Annie's memoir, told through Radu's evocative voice, an account that sings like a work of fiction, yet is at the same time remarkable for its unvarnished look at a life of strife, courage, and hope. When Annie lost her mother, her father quickly remarried, and Annie's overworked and emotionally distant stepmother hardly had time to nurture a little girl. Yet Annie was close to her older sister, Tenka, who became a surrogate mother. It was only when their father died and Annie was torn from her siblings that her childhood began to crumble. Sent to live with an abusive aunt, she took comfort in her rich heritage. Radu, in a narrative full of the wondrous aromas and recipes of Romanian cooking, draws vivid pictures of savory sarmale (cabbage rolls) and buttery sweet placinta (strudel), pleasures with which Annie defended herself against her aunt's savagery. The Devil Is Clever is a powerful account of prairie life between the two World Wars, of immigrant dreams, and the triumph of hope over hardship. Its indelible portrait of a woman whose search for love and acceptance never wavers confirms Kenneth Radu's prodigious gift for storytelling.

The Devil Is Clever: A Memoir of My Romanian Mother

Radu, Kenneth

HarperFlamingo Canada

Physical description; 237 p. : ill. (some col),maps, ports. ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p.225-226) and index. Subjects; Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961 - Criticism and interpretation. Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961 - Journeys - Africa.

Hemingway in Africa

ONDAATJE, Christopher

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

With Lady Franklin’s Revenge, bestselling author KenMcGoogan (Fatal Passage, Ancient Mariner) delivers another pageturning biography that brings a remarkable historical figure vividly to life.Denied a role in Victorian England’s male-dominated society, Jane Franklin(17911875) took her revenge by seizing control of that most masculine ofpursuits, Arctic exploration, and shaping its history to her own ends.
Arguably the greatest woman traveller of the 19th century, LadyFranklin rode a donkey into Nazareth, sailed a rat-infested boat up the Nile,climbed mountains in Africa and the Holy Land, and, wearing petticoats, beat herway through the Tasmanian bush. 
When Sir John Franklin, her husband, disappeared into the Arcticin 1845, she orchestrated an unprecedented 12-year search, contributing more tothe discovery of the North than any celebrated explorer. Having failed to rescuethe hapless Franklin, she turned failure into triumph by creating a legend.
Richly detailed, panoramic in scope, this biography of theunforgettable Jane Franklin is destined to become a classic.

Lady Franklins Revenge

In 1703, a war party of French soldiers and Abenaki warriorsraided the village of seven-year-old Puritan girl EstherWheelwright, taking thirty-nine captives and killing a handfulof men, women and children. That Esther managed to survivethe 200-mile journey by foot through swamps and forests to aJesuit mission in New France is astonishing. That she was adopted,quite happily, into a family of her Abenaki captors, isequally amazing. But for the Wheelwright family, who waitedyears before they had word that Esther had even survived theraid, this was a tragedy.
When Esther’s release from her Abenaki family was finallynegotiated through a French Jesuit who took her to the city ofQuebec, it was too late. At the age of fourteen, Esther brokeher parents’ hearts by refusing to go home; they never saw heragain. Instead, she remained in Quebec, the capital of NewFrance, where, against all odds, she rose through the ranks tobecome Mother Superiorand a pivotal figure after the siegeof Quebec in 1759.
Written by Esther’s descendant, Julie Wheelwright, Estheris a spiritual and an emotional journey of survival, and of thehuman capacity for transformation.

Esther

Wheelwright, Julie

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