Autobiography

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texte, Jean-Benoît Durand

Une collection retraçant les grandes premières ayant marqué l'humanité: voyages, explorations, découvertes scientifiques, conquêtes... Le récit romancé de l'événement est suivi de deux doubles pages documentaires évoquant son contexte historique ainsi que d'un dépliant détaillant les événements ou avancées scientifiques auxquelles elle donna lieu. Illustrations réalistes et reproduction de documents d'archives complètent le tout. Ce volume présente la huitième expédition de l'explorateur Robert Peary, qui est bien décidé à atteindre le premier la destination mythique que constitue le Pôle Nord. Après avoir affronté de gigantesques icebergs, son expédition entreprend une marche périlleuse sur la banquise, qui le mène enfin au bout de son rêve. [SDM].

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William Barr

"From policing and prospecting in the Yukon, patrolling Chesterfield Inlet, establishing the RCMP's post in Stony Rapids, sledging across Ellesmere Island, coordinating aerial surveillance patrols in the Gaspe to guarding Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt in Quebec City in 1944, Harry Stallworthy's life was always full of adventure." "While stationed at Bache Peninsula, Ellesmere Island in the 1930s, Stallworthy led one of the longest arctic sledge patrols in RCMP history, searching for traces of German geologist Dr. Hans Kruger. In 1934 he set off with the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition with Eddie Shackleton, son of the famous Antarctic explorer. Shackleton recalls that the Expedition "owed so much to this remarkable Polar man.""--BOOK JACKET.

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Dick Francis

The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race is a rail junket that offers passengers the chance to race thoroughbreds and to solve mysteries. For Tor Kelsey, undercover agent for the British Jockey Club, this imaginary mayhem is about to become a nightmare of real murder.

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Jackson Pearce

"When her boyfriend disappears with a mysterious girl, seventeen-year-old Ginny leaves her hometown of Atlanta and fights wolves, escapes thieves, and braves the cold to rescue him"-- When her boyfriend disappears with a mysterious girl, seventeen-year-old Ginny leaves her hometown of Atlanta and fights wolves, escapes thieves, and braves the cold to rescue him. The plot contains profanity.