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Carol Shields: Evocation and Echo [Paperback]
Conny Steenman-Marcusse (Editor); Aritha van Herk (Editor); Conny SteenmanMarcusse (Editor)
$28.00ISBN: 9789077922514
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: Canada Cahiers
Volume: 13
Beloved of readers and writers alike, Carol Shields was a formidable creative force. e author of dozens of books, she won a Pulitzer Prize and an Orange Prize, a Governor General's award, and many other honours and recognitions. And this extraordi... .... Learn More -
Recent Archaeology of the Early Modern Period in Québec City: Post-Medieval Archaeology, Volume 43, Part 1(2009) [Paperback]
William Moss (Editor)
$49.00ISBN: 9781906540890
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Post-Medieval Archaeology
Volume: 43.1
This volume is the result of collaboration between SPMA and the Association des archéologues du Québec (AAQ); its guest editor is William Moss, Chief Archaeologist for the City of Québec. The publication has a... .... Learn More -
Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World [Hardback]
James E Snead (Author)
$45.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780816523085
Published by : University of Arizona Press
The eastern Pueblo heartland, located in the northern Rio Grande country of New Mexico, has fascinated archaeologists since the 1870s. In Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World, James Snead uses an exciting new approach landscape archaeologyt... .... Learn More -
Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America [Hardback]
Miles Harvey (Author)
Regular Price: $27.00
Special Price: $9.98
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ISBN: 9781400061204
Published by : Random House, Inc.
In this vibrantly told, meticulously researched book, Miles Harvey reveals one of the most fascinating and overlooked lives in American history. Like The Island of Lost Maps, his bestselling book about a legendary map thief, Painter in a Savage... .... Learn More -
The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus [Hardback]
David Abulafia (Author)
Regular Price: $35.00
Special Price: $9.98
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ISBN: 9780300125825
Published by : Yale University Press
The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of unknown peoples who were entirely foreign to anything in European explorers experience. From the first recorded encounters with the native inhabitants of ... .... Learn More -
Toward the Setting Sun: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, and the Race for America [Hardback]
David Boyle (Author)
Regular Price: $27.99
Special Price: $9.98
ISBN: 9780802716514
Published by : Walker & Company
The untold story of the rivalries and alliances between Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and John Cabot during the Age of Exploration.
When Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, the long-established trade routes to t... .... Learn More -
The Voyage Long and Strange [Hardback]
Tony Horwitz (Author)
Regular Price: $40.00
Special Price: $12.98
ISBN: 9780719566356
Published by : Hodder & Stoughton
A Voyage Long and Strange opens with the Vikings in AD 1000, but focuses on the neglected period in early American history between Columbus' voyage of 1492 and the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620. Horwitz recaptures the adventures of non-English expl... .... Learn More -
A Place called Nunavut: Multiple identities for a new region [Paperback]
Kim van Dam (Author)
$30.00ISBN: 9789077922453
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: Circumpolar Studies
Volume: 5
In 1999, Nunavut Territory was created in the Canadian Arctic. The area is about 50 times as large as the Netherlands, and is inhabited by a population of 30,000. 85% of the population is Inuit, the indigenous people in this area. The central ques... .... Learn More -
Confederate Seas [Paperback]
John Hess (Author)
$25.95ISBN: 9781905933013
Published by : John Hess
When the American Civil War began in 1861 it became of prime importance for the United Sates to seal off the Southern ports. The Southern Confederacy had few resources to prevent this happening, but tried very hard to make up the difference. Th... .... Learn More -
New York City Neighborhoods: The 18th Century [Paperback]
Nan A. Rothschild (Author)
$42.50ISBN: 9780975273869
Published by : Percheron Press/Eliot Werner Publications
Series: Foundations of Archaeology
An archaeological study of the growth of Manhattan during the colonial period, this book documents the emergence of Manhattan as the center of class-structured capitalist commercialism in the new nation-state. A new introduction by the author ... .... Learn More