History of Other Lands

In 1927, Paul Morand -- a French diplomat and noted European author -- made two extended trips to the Caribbean, Latin America and the American Sou...

Updated for the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War, this is the bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the conflict, written b...

Cold and isolated, yet home to some 4 million people; harsh and unyielding, yet receding dramatically every year: the Arctic is an area that defies...

A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author...

The Great Depression of the 1930s often recalls images of the drought-stricken Great Plains. Prolonged drought exacerbated the economic effects of ...

In Storm of the Century: The Regina Tornado of 1912 , author Sandra Bingaman recounts one of the worst natural disasters in Canadian history--the r...

For half a century a box had lain undisturbed, buried under years of accumulated clutter in the back room of a house. The contents of the box: stac...

[M]arvelous and compelling... - John Milloy, author of The Plains Cree and A National Crime As the first inland surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Comp...

What is Canadian cuisine? Lenore Newman distils much of the current thinking into the erudite and elegantly readable Speaking in Cod Tongues . Her ...

Rogues and Rebels introduces us to dozens of larger-than-life Westerners--some infamous, some obscure--who dared to be different. Brian Brennan chr...

The introduction of medicare in Saskatchewan marks a dividing point in the history of the province and Canada. Before 1962, access to medical care ...

A history of Saskatchewan's highest court as it reaches its centennial in 2018, The Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan places the court within the ad...

Allan Blakeney believed in government as a force for good. As premier of Saskatchewan, he promoted social justice through government intervention i...

An analysis of the insider information and insights that over eighty Soviet intelligence officer defectors revealed during the first half of the So...

The Maritimes has a long and treasured history of ghostly appearances and mysterious disappearances. Join ghost writer guru Vernon Oickle as he sco...