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River of the gods : genius, courage, and betrayal in the search for the source of the Nile / by Millard, Candice,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirring story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time, and its complicated legacy The Nile River is the longest in the world. Its fertile floodplain allowed for rise to the great civilization of ancient Egypt, but for millennia the location of its headwaters was shrouded in mystery. Pharaonic and Roman attempts to find it were stymied by a giant labyrinthine swamp, and subsequent expeditions got nofurther. In the 19th century, the discovery and translation of the Rosetta Stone set off a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe - and extendtheir colonial empires. Two British men - Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke - were sent by the Royal Geographical Society to claim the prize for England. Burton was already famous for being the first non-Muslim to travel to Mecca, disguised as an Arab chieftain. He spoke twenty-nine languages, was a decorated soldier, and literally wrote the book on sword-fighting techniques for the British Army. He was also mercurial, subtle, and an iconoclastic atheist. Speke was a young aristocrat and Army officerdetermined to make his mark, passionate about hunting, Burton's opposite in temperament and beliefs. From the start the two men clashed, Speke chafing under Burton's command and Burton disapproving of Speke's ignorance of the people whose lands through which they traveled. They would endure tremendous hardships, illness, and constant setbacks. Two years in, deep in the African interior, Burton became too sick to press on, but Speke did, and claimed he found the source in a great lake that he christened Lake Victoria. When they returned to England, Speke rushed to take credit, disparaging Burton. Burton disputed his claim, and Speke launched another expedition to Africa to prove it. The two became venomous enemies, with the public siding with the more charismatic Burton, to Speke's great envy. The day before they were to publicly debate, Speke shot himself. Yet there was a third man on both expeditions, his name obscured by imperial annals, whose exploits were even more extraordinary. This was Sidi Mubarak Bombay, who was enslaved and shipped from his home village in East Africa to India. When the man who purchased him died, he made his way into the local Sultan's army, and eventually traveled back to Africa, where he used his resourcefulness, linguisticprowess and raw courage to forge a living as a guide. Without his talents, it is likely that neither Englishman would have come close to the headwaters of the Nile, or perhaps even survived. In RIVER OF THE GODS Candice Millard has written another peerless story of courage and adventure, set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers"--
Subjects: Bombay, Sidi Mubarak; Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890; Speke, John Hanning, 1827-1864; Explorers;
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Disappointment River : finding and losing the Northwest Passage / by Castner, Brian,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie travelled the 1,125 miles of the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, only to confront impassable pack ice. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling journey--and discovered the Passage he could not find. Disappointment River is a dual historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound alteration by the dual forces of energy extraction and climate change. Eleven years before Lewis and Clark, the Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie actually crossed the North American continent with a team of voyageurs and Native guides. Before that he was the first to discover a route to the Arctic Ocean from the Great Lakes, along the river he named "Disappointment" because he believed he'd failed in his mission to find a trade route to the riches of the East. In fact he had--he was just two-plus centuries early. In this book, Brian Castner not only retells the story of Mackenzie's epic voyages in vivid prose, he personally retraces his travels in an 1,125-mile canoe voyage down the river that bears his name, battling exhaustion, exposure, mosquitoes, white water rapids and the threat of bears. He transports readers to a world rarely glimpsed in the media, of tar sands, thawing permafrost, remote Native villages and, at the end, a wide open Arctic Ocean that is quickly becoming a far-northern Mississippi of barges and pipelines and oil money."--
Subjects: Castner, Brian; Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1764-1820; Canoes and canoeing;
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The bastard of Fort Stikine : the Hudson's Bay Company and the murder of John McLoughlin Jr. / by Komar, Debra,1965-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: McLoughlin, John, Jr., died 1842.; McLoughlin, John, 1784-1857.; Simpson, George, Sir, 1792?-1860.; Hudson's Bay Company; Hudson's Bay Company; Hudson's Bay Company; Murder;
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Blaze and the monster machines. [videorecording] / by Faxon, Nat,voice actor.; North, Nolan,voice actor.; Richardson, Kevin Michael,1964-voice actor.; Nickelodeon (Firm),broadcaster,production company.; Paramount Pictures Corporation,distributor.;
Voices: Nat Faxon, Nolan North, Kevin Michael Richardson.Hear ye, hear ye, powerful knights unite! Sir Blaze and Sir Crusher armor up and compete in a rapid Royal Race. Then, join Blaze on a medieval mission to recover a royal charging station, transform into the bravest, most noble heroes in all the land to help rescue the king, and enter the Great Forest to retrieve a majestic lion's magical sunstone.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, stereophonic.
Subjects: Children's television programs.; Animated television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Trucks; Monster trucks; Knights and knighthood;
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The greatest victory : Canada's one hundred days, 1918 / by Granatstein, J. L.,1939-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Currie, Arthur, Sir, 1875-1933.; Canada. Canadian Army; Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Corps; Military art and science; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918;
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The lord of the rings : The two towers / by Mckellen, Sir Ian; Wood, Elijah; Blanchett, Cate; Rhys-Davies, John; Tyler, Liv; Mortensen, Viggo; Astin, Sean; Lee, Christopher; Bloom, Orlando; Tolkien, J. R. R.;
Director, Peter Jackson.Viggo Mortensen, John Rhys-Davies, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Christopher Lee, Liv Tyler, Sir Ian Mckellen, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom.In this second installment of the epic trilogy, Frodo and Sam continue their journey to Mordor on their mission to destroy the One Ring, while the Dark Lord's army is approaching Gondor and the War of the Ring is about to begin.CHVRS rating: 14A.Blu-ray.
Subjects: Adventure.; Academy Award Winners.; Action / Adventure.;
© 2010., New Line Home Video,
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The jungle book [videorecording] / by Elba, Idris,actor.; Favreau, Jon,film director.; Kingsley, Ben,1943-actor.; Kipling, Rudyard,1865-1936.Jungle book.; Murray, Bill,1950 September 21-actor.; Sethi, Neel,actor.; Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Sir Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong'o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito, Christopher Walken, Garry Shandling, Brighton Rose.An epic adventure about Mowgli, a man-cub who's been raised by a family of wolves. Mowgli finds he is no longer welcome in the jungle when fearsome tiger Shere Khan, who bears the scars of Man, promises to eliminate what he sees as a threat. Urged to abandon the only home he's ever known, Mowgli embarks on a captivating journey of self discovery, guided by panther turned stern mentor Bagheera, and the free spirited bear Baloo.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG; for some sequences of scary action and peril.DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1); Dolby digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Children's films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Mowgli (Fictitious character); Human-animal relationships; Jungle animals; Jungles; Orphans;
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To the edges of the Earth : 1909, the race for the three poles, and the climax of the age of exploration / by Larson, Edward J.(Edward John),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955.; Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920.; Savoia, Luigi Amedeo di, duca degli Abruzzi, 1873-1933.; Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922.; British Antarctic Expedition (1907-1909); Mountaineering expeditions; Polar regions;
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The Canterville ghost [videorecording] / by Edwards, Cory,screenwriter.; New, Giles,screenwriter.; Chandler, Robert,film director.; Burdon, Kim,film director.; Highmore, Freddie,1992-voice actor.; Laurie, Hugh,1959-voice actor.; Staunton, Imelda,1956-voice actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Wilde, Oscar,1854-1900.Canterville ghost.; Shout! Factory (Firm),publisher.;
Voices: Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton, Freddie Highmore, Stephen Fry, Emily Carey, Toby Jones, Miranda Hart.An American family moves to England, to the infamous Canterville Chase, the ancestral home that's been haunted for 300 years by the ghost, of Sir Simon de Canterville. When Sir Simon and the family's teenage daughter Virginia start plotting together to get her family back to New York, she discovers that Sir Simon has been cursed to be bound to the estate. After she uncovers the beautiful and tragic love story of Sir Simon's beloved wife, Virginia joins her new neighbor, the Duke of Cheshire, to break the curse and together with Sir Simon take down the Grim Reaper.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements, peril, and some violence.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Children's films.; Comedy films.; Animated films.; Feature films.; Ghost films.; Haunted house films.; Americans; Ghosts; Supernatural; Families; Haunted houses;
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Murdered Midas : a millionaire, his gold mine, and a strange death on an island paradise / by Gray, Charlotte,1948-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.On an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold mining tycoon, philanthropist and "richest man in the Empire," was murdered. The news of his death surged across the English-speaking world, from London, the Imperial centre, to the remote Canadian mining town of Kirkland Lake, in the Northern Ontario bush. The murder became celebrated as "the crime of the century." The layers of mystery deepened as the involvement of Oakes' son-in-law, Count Alfred de Marigny, came quickly to be questioned, as did the odd machinations of the Governor of the Bahamas, the former King Edward VIII. Despite a sensational trial, no murderer was ever convicted. Rumours were unrelenting about Oakes' missing fortune, and fascination with the Oakes story has persisted for decades. Award-winning biographer and popular historian Charlotte Gray explores, for the first time, the life of the man behind the scandal, a man who was both reviled and admired-- from his early, hardscrabble days of mining exploration, to his explosion of wealth, to his grandiose gestures of philanthropy. And Gray brings fresh eyes to the bungled investigation and shocking trial in the remote colonial island streets, proposing an overlooked suspect in this long cold case. Murdered Midas is the story of the man behind the newspaper headlines, who, despite his wealth and position, was never able to have justice.
Subjects: True crime stories.; Biographies.; Oakes, Harry, Sir, 1874-1943.; Marigny, Alfred de, 1910-1998.; Businessmen; Philanthropists; Gold mines and mining; Rich people; Murder; Trials (Murder);
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