The Voyageur Canadian biographies 5-book bundle
(2014)

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dundurn : Made available through hoopla, 2014
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781459729025 (electronic bk.) MWT11826933, 1459729021 (electronic bk.) 11826933
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English
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Voyageur Classics is a series of special versions of Canadian classics, with added material and new introductory notes. In this bundle we find five biographical and autobiographical titles that shed light on some of Canada's most important figures at crucial times in the country's development. William Kilbourn brings to life the rebel Canadian hero William Lyon Mackenzie: able political editor, first mayor of Toronto, and the gadfly of the House of Assembly. The Scalpel, the Sword celebrates the turbulent career of Dr. Norman Bethune, a brilliant surgeon, campaigner for socialized medicine, and communist. Elizabeth Simcoe's diary, describing Canada from 1791 to 1796, is history written as it was being made, an account instilled with excitement and delight. And finally, two titles by the legendary Grey Owl tell his own astonishing story and advocate for a closeness with and respect for nature. Each of these books is an essential classic of Canadian literature

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