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12 produkter
Emancipation Day
Av Wayne Grady
E-bok, 2013
210 kr
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How far would a son go to belong? And how far would a father go to protect him? With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage. It''s World War II, and while stationed in St. John''s, Newfoundland, Jack …
Up From Freedom
Av Wayne Grady
E-bok, 2018
231 kr
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For readers of Colson Whitehead, James McBride, Yaa Gyasi and Lawrence Hill, Up From Freedom is a powerful and emotional novel about the dangers that arise when we stay silent in the face of prejudice or are complicit in its development. As a young man, Virgil Moody vowed he would never be like his …
Breakfast at the Exit Cafe
Travels Through America
Av Merilyn Simonds, Wayne Grady
E-bok, 2010
138 kr
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What begins as a road trip through America soon becomes a journey of discovery into themselves and into the heart of the next-door neighbour they thought they knew. For Wayne Grady , the thrill of landscape and history is tempered by memories of racism and his own family roots. Merilyn Simonds , …
Great Lakes
The Natural History of a Changing Region
Av Wayne Grady
E-bok, 2011
239 kr
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The Great Lakes have been central to the development of eastern North America. In this “beautifully designed, comprehensive gem of a guide to the ecosystem at the heart of Canada” (The Tyee), award-winning science and nature writer Wayne Grady makes scientific concepts accessible as he reveals how …
Pandexicon
How the Language of the Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality
Av Wayne Grady
Inbunden, 2023
234 kr
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Did you keep a list of the words coined by Covid? Wayne Grady did! They're deftly woven into a journal/timeline, taking us through two years of surrealism and limbo.—Margaret AtwoodThis exploration of the many new terms of the Covid-19 pandemic provides insight into the ways an ever-evolving …
Dark Waters Dancing to a Breeze
A Literary Companion to Rivers and Lakes
Av Wayne Grady
E-bok, 2009
232 kr
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Humans’ fascination with water finds full expression in this stellar collection. Included are writings from Mark Twain, who marvels at the teeming humanity on the Ganges; Henry Stanley, searching for Livingston and discovering instead Lake Albert Edward; selections from A Compleat Angler and A …
Deserts
A Literary Companion
Av Wayne Grady
E-bok, 2009
239 kr
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Next to rain forests, deserts are the most biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth. In fact, a desert is never a single ecosystem but a concentration of dozens, ranging from arid flatlands to high mesas to canyons, and oases. Filled with unexpected life and unforgiving conditions, the desert …
Tree
A Life Story
E-bok, 2009
141 kr
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“Only God can make a tree,” wrote Joyce Kilmer in one of the most celebrated of poems. In Tree: A Life Story , authors David Suzuki and Wayne Grady extend that celebration in a “biography” of this extraordinary — and extraordinarily important — organism. A story that spans a millennium and includes …
Where the Silence Rings
A Literary Companion to Mountains
Av Wayne Grady
E-bok, 2009
239 kr
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From Edward Whymper’s ascent of the Matterhorn in the 1860s to Jon Krakauer’s vivid profiles of modern mountaineers, this collection offers indelible impressions from writers who experienced the mystery and the grandeur of the mountains — and who lived to tell about it. Highlights include John …
Breakfast at the Exit Cafe
Travels Through America
Av Wayne Grady, Merilyn Simonds
Häftad, 2011
158 kr
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What begins as a road trip through America soon becomes a journey of discovery into themselves and into the heart of the next-door neighbour they thought they knew. For Wayne Grady, the thrill of landscape and history is tempered by memories of racism and his own family roots. Merilyn Simonds, her …
Tree
A Life Story
Häftad, 2018
168 kr
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The story of a single tree, from the moment the seed is released from its cone until, more than five hundred years later, it lies on the forest floor as a nurse log, giving life to ferns, mosses, and hemlocks, even as its own life is ending.In this unique biography, David Suzuki and Wayne Grady …
