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14 produkter
Extraordinary Canadians: Big Bear
Av Rudy Wiebe, John Ralston Saul
E-bok, 2008
215 kr
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Big Bear (1825–1888) was a Plains Cree chief in Saskatchewan at a time when aboriginals were confronted with the disappearance of the buffalo and waves of European settlers that seemed destined to destroy the Indian way of life. In 1876 he refused to sign Treaty No. 6, until 1882, when his people …
Peace Shall Destroy Many
Av Rudy Wiebe
E-bok, 2010
262 kr
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In 1944, as war rages across Europe and Asia, famine, violence and fear are commonplace. But life appears tranquil in the isolated farming settlement of Wapiti in northern Saskatchewan, where the Mennonite community continues the agricultural lifestyle their ancestors have practised for centuries. …
Sweeter Than All The World
Av Rudy Wiebe
E-bok, 2010
267 kr
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Rudy Wiebe’s latest novel is at once an enthralling saga of the Mennonite people and one man’s emotional voyage into his heritage and his own self-discovery. Ambitious in its historical sweep, tender and humane, Sweeter Than All the World takes us on an extraordinary odyssey never before fully …
Temptations Of Big Bear
Av Rudy Wiebe
E-bok, 2010
314 kr
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Early in his writing career, Rudy Wiebe’s imagination was caught by a heroic character of Cree and Ojibwa ancestry whose birthplace was within twenty-five miles of where Wiebe himself was born 110 years later. The man’s name translated into English was Big Bear, and he came to be the subject of one …
Stolen Life
The Journey of a Cree Woman
E-bok, 2012
222 kr
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"Written with primal intensity, touched with redeeming compassion, Rudy Wiebe--has explored our history, our roots and the secrets of our hearts with moral seriousness and great feeling." - Governor General''s Award for Fiction Citation, l994 A powerful, major work of non-fiction, beautifully …
Discovery Of Strangers
Av Rudy Wiebe
E-bok, 2011
224 kr
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A Discovery of Strangers is a story--based on true events--of love and innocence, murder, greed and passion set within the terrifying, fragile Arctic landscape. In 1820, John Franklin''s small group of British officers and Canadian voyageurs, on their first expedition to search for a route through …
River Of Stone
Av Rudy Wiebe
E-bok, 2011
286 kr
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A rare and marvellous collection by a master teller of tales, together in one volume for the first time. River of Stone brings to readers an appealing selection of Rudy Wiebe''s best and most loved writing — and draws us into a world that he has made distinctively his own. In this haunting …
Of This Earth
A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest
Av Rudy Wiebe
E-bok, 2009
241 kr
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A beautiful, moving memoir of a boy’s coming of age, infused with a deep love of the land, from one of Canada’s most cherished and acclaimed writers. In Of This Earth, Rudy Wiebe gives vivid life again to the vanished world of Speedwell, Saskatchewan, an isolated, poplar-forested, mostly Mennonite …
Come Back
Av Rudy Wiebe
E-bok, 2014
252 kr
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From a 2-time winner of the Governor General''s Literary Award, an intense novel of loss, memory and the limitless nature of family love. Hal Wiens, a retired professor, is mourning the sudden death of his loving wife, Yo. To get through each day, he relies on the bare comfort of routine and …
Temptations of Big Bear
Av Rudy Wiebe
Häftad, 1995
160 kr
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“What can that mean, I and my family will have a ‘reserve of one square mile’?” So asks Big Bear of Governor Morris, come to impose a square treaty on the round, buffalo-covered world of the Plains Cree. As the buffalo vanish and the tension builds to the second Riel Rebellion, Big Bear alone of …
Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955–2010
Av Rudy Wiebe
Häftad, 2010
526 kr
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For more than fifty years, Canadian literary legend Rudy Wiebe has been defining and refining prairie literature through his oeuvre of world-renowned novels, histories, essays, and short stories. He has introduced generations of readers far and wide to western Canadian Mennonite, aboriginal, and …
Alberta
Av Robert Kroetsch, Rudy Wiebe
Häftad, 1993
231 kr
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Robert Kroetsch captures the beauty of this province in this endearing documentation of his Alberta experience—from the dinosaur digs in the Badlands to the Calgary Stampede to the site of Big Bear’s prophetic vision of kd lang’s hometown, Stettler.
Blue Mountains of China
Av Rudy Wiebe
E-bok, 2011
257 kr
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For readers of Wiebe''s Of This Earth : A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest and Sandra Birdsell''s The Russländer . An epic novel on the Mennonite experience, by a Governor General''s Award-winning author.
Where the Truth Lies
Selected Essays
Av Rudy Wiebe
Häftad, 2016
251 kr
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“The problem with writer longevity can be a complicating, even contradictory oeuvre. Hopefully.” Where The Truth Lies collects forty years of essays and speeches that Rudy Wiebe crafted over his many years as an author. In this illuminating and wide-ranging selection, Wiebe provides a look behind …
