Anthony Dalton: 14 books
Sir John Franklin: Expeditions to Destiny
Expeditions to Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage, the search for his two ships, Erebus and Terror, and survivors of his expedition became one of the most exhaustive quests of the 19th century. Despite tantalizing clues, the ships were...
by Anthony Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In the summer of 1984, Anthony Dalton embarked on a near-fatal voyage in a small open boat along the wild northwest coast of Alaska, attempting a solo transit of the Northwest Passage. His sea quest ran parallel to an arduous relief expedition undertaken in 1897-98, when the officers of the US cutter...
Polar Region Explorers 2-Book Bundle
River Rough, River Smooth / Arctic Naturalist
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
Presenting a special 2-book bundle of Anthony Dalton’s outstanding writing on Canada's polar regions, their history, and their greatest explorers.
“Dalton does an excellent job … a very enjoyable read.”— Bios Newsletter
**Includes: **
River Rough, River Smooth
Manitoba’s...
Baychimo: Arctic Ghost Ship
Arctic Ghost Ship
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
No vessel that sailed the Arctic seas has raised so much speculation or triggered imaginations as has the legendary Hudson's Bay Company ship Baychimo.
In the 1920s, Baychimo set up trading posts in eastern Canada, sailed on fur-trading expeditions to Siberia during the turbulent years of the...
by Anthony Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Around the Arctic Circle, polar bears are at the top of the food chain. They have no natural enemies and are fearless, living on the ice and hunting seals—their favourite food—with matchless cunning and ability. They roam far and wide, often far south of their Arctic habitat: they are seen regularly...
The Graveyard of the Pacific
Shipwreck Tales from the Depths of History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
On January 22, 1906, the passenger ship Valencia lost her way in heavy fog and rain and rammed into the deadly rocks at Pachena Point on the west coast of Vancouver Island. As the wreck was shattered by the pounding waves, the survivors clung desperately to the rigging. Few made it the short distance...
by Anthony Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
This is a book for all those who yearn for far away places: the adventurers and the armchair travellers. The stories run the gamut from searching for Polar bears on the shores of Hudson Bay through mountain climbing in Western Canada to tracking Royal Bengal tigers in Bangladesh jungle. They depict often...
by Anthony Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Anson Northup, the first steamboat on the Canadian prairies, arrived in Fort Garry in 1859. Belching hot sparks and growling in fury, it was called "fire canoe" by the local Cree. The first steam-powered passenger vessel in Canada had begun service on the St. Lawrence River in 1809, and...
River Rough, River Smooth
Adventures on Manitoba's Historic Hayes River
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2010
Manitoba's Hayes River runs over six hundred kilometers from near Norway House to Hudson Bay. On its rush to the sea, the Hayes races over forty-five rapids and waterfalls as it drops down from the Precambrian Shield to the Hudson Bay Lowlands. This great waterway, the largest naturally flowing river...
by Anthony Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
On September 8, 1923, seven US Navy destroyers rammed into jagged rocks on the California coast. Twenty-three sailors died that night. Five years earlier, the Canadian Pacific passenger ship Princess Sophia steamed into Vanderbilt Reef in Alaska's Lynn Canal. When she sank, she took 353 people to...
The Dundurn Arctic Culture and Sovereignty Library
Pike's Portage/Death Wins in the Arctic/Arctic Naturalist/Arctic Obsession/Arctic Twilight/Arctic Front/Canoeing North Into the Unknown/Arctic Revolution/In the Shadow of the Pole/Voices From the Odeyak
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
This special bundle is your essential guide to all things concerning Canada’s polar regions, which make up the majority of Canada’s territory but are places most of us will never visit. The Arctic has played a key role in Canada’s history and in the history of the indigenous peoples of this...
The Fur-Trade Fleet
Shipwrecks of the Hudson’s Bay Company
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
In mid-July 1925, the SS Bayeskimo ran into heavy drift ice at the entrance to Hudson Strait. The ice carried her north, squeezing the steamer and testing the strength of her rivets. Helpless until the tide changed and the ice moved, the officers and crew could only watch and listen to the ship’s...
Henry Hudson
Doomed Navigator and Explorer
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
From the era of wooden sailing ships and Europe’s golden age of exploration, the story of famed British navigator Henry Hudson tells a classic tale of courage, ambition, and treachery on the high seas. As the leader of four Arctic voyages in 1607, 1608, 1609, and 1610, Hudson searched in vain for...
Arctic Naturalist
The Life of J. Dewey Soper
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
Dewey Soper first travelled to the Arctic in 1923. During the next seven years he accepted three research postings on Baffin Island, each of which lasted between one and two years. In 1929 he discovered the breeding grounds of the blue goose in the southwest corner of Baffin Island. He also charted...