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1	Never Cry Wolf more books like this by Farley Mowat add to wishlist This inquiry begins with the puzzle of sibling relations. Why are individuals from the same family little more similar in personality than people from different families? Why doesn't a shared family environment lead to similar values and beliefs? Sulloway suggests a fresh way of understanding how family affects individual development. Among ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.47! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Far North more books like this by Will Hobbs add to wishlist When their plane crashes in Canada's Northwest Territories, roommates Gabe and Raymond must struggle to survive in the frozen wilderness. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic more books like this by Kevin Krajick add to wishlist Diamond hunters Chuck Fipke and Stew Blusson venture into the Barren Lands of Canada in search of a cache of diamonds. Their 20-year search followed remote geological clues left by purveyors of the past who were searching for the same elusive motherlode of diamonds underneath the tundra. see all copies from $7.00! new only from $49.95! \| first editions
4	Denison's Ice Road more books like this by Edith Iglauer add to wishlist In savage blizzards, blinding whiteouts and 60-below-zero temperatures, steel axles snap like twigs; brakes and steering wheels seize up; bare hands freeze when they touch metal. The lake ice cracks and sometimes gives way, so the road-builders drive with one hand on the door, ready to jump. John Denison and his crew waited for the coldest, ... see all copies from $3.21! new only from $33.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Late Nights on Air more books like this by Elizabeth Hay add to wishlist It's 1975 when beautiful Dido Paris arrives at the radio station in Yellowknife, a frontier town in the Canadian north. Her enchanting voice disarms hard-bitten broadcaster Harry Boyd and electrifies the station, setting into motion rivalries both professional and sexual. As the drama at the station unfolds, a proposed gas pipeline threatens to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.24! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Kabloona: Among the Inuit more books like this by Gontran de Poncins, Professor Grover Gardner (Read by) add to wishlist This account of one European man's encounter with the "other" is a classic of anthropology, adventure, travel, and spiritual renewal. In 1938, de Poncins, a French nobleman, spent 15 months living among the Inuit. At first appalled by many aspects of their life, he gradually finds himself transformed from "kabloona"--"the white man", an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.63! \| first editions
7	Desperate People more books like this by Farley Mowat add to wishlist THEY COULD SURVIVE ANYTHING IN THE ARCTIC WILDERNESS--EXCEPT THE WHITE MAN.They were rich, the caribou were abundant. Their dogs were many and strong. The children in the tents were happy, and there was never any fear of going hungry. Then came the ruthless white man's civilization. And with it came slaughter of the herds, starvation of the flesh, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Netsilik Eskimo more books like this by Asen Balikci add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $45.00! \| first editions
9	Dangerous River more books like this by Richard North Patterson, R M Paterson, R M Patterson add to wishlist R.M. Patterson left London in the winter of 1927 and headed out prospecting in the treacherous and beautiful Nahanni River in Canada's Northwest Territories. Though he didn't find gold, he did bring back "... one of the best canoe adventure stories of all time" -- Wooden Boat see all copies from $1.99!
10	Great days in the rockies : the photographs of Byron Harmon, 1906-1934 more books like this by Byron Harmon, Carole Harmon, Peter Whyte Foundation add to wishlist see all copies from $13.13! first editions
11	Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old more books like this by Professor Jean L Briggs add to wishlist Inuit adults often present small children with difficult choices and then dramatise the consequences of the child's answers, enacting the plots that drive Inuit social life. This narrative takes readers through six months in the life of a three-year-old girl growing up in a Baffin Island camp. see all copies from $2.57! new only from $16.16! \| first editions \| SVS
12	The Rifles: 8 more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist Vaulting through time to another flashpoint in the long struggle between Indians and Europeans, Vollmann's visionary fictional history now focuses on the white explorers of 150 years ago, desperately dreaming of forging a Northwest Passage. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	Milepost more books like this by Kris Valencia (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $4.49! new only from $18.44!
14	Down the Wild River North more books like this by Constance Helmericks add to wishlist In suburban Arizona, 1965, Connie Helericks announces to her two daughters, 12-year-old Ann and 14-year-old Jean, that "we're going to make a canoe expedition to the Artic Ocean". And for two successive summers that's exactly what they did. This book is the vividly written story of their adventures in the remote northern reaches of Canada and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
15	Kabloona more books like this by Gontran De Montaigne Poncins add to wishlist This account of one European man's encounter with the "other" is a classic of anthropology, adventure, travel, and spiritual renewal. In 1938, de Poncins, a French nobleman, spent 15 months living among the Inuit. At first appalled by many aspects of their life, he gradually finds himself transformed from "kabloona"--"the white man", an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.37! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Dying for Gold: The True Story of the Giant Mine Murders more books like this by Lee Selleck, Francis Thompson add to wishlist On September 18, 1992, nine men died in the labyrinthine drifts of Yellowknife's Giant gold mine, after four months of a painful labor dispute. Six of the dead were Giant employees; three were "replacement workers". All were husbands, fathers, sons, lovers, friends, firefighters, draegermen. Their deaths brought squadrons of police, investigators ... see all copies from $12.49! first editions
17	Northwest Epic: The Building of the Alaska Highway more books like this by Heath Twichell add to wishlist The majestic history of the longest and most ambitious road built in American history, in celebration of its 50th anniversary. Northwest Epic is the story of the explorers, aviators, soldiers, and courageous laborers who toiled throught the early 1940s, racing against time to finish the 1,500-mile road so that the Japanese couldn't invade Alaska ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $37.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Nahanni Trailhead: A Year in the Northern Wilderness more books like this by Joanne R Moore add to wishlist The South Nahanni River of Canada's North west Territories has captivated canoeists and adventurers for decades. The author tells how they transported their provisions in to the remote area and built their cabin on the South Nahanni River, an area cut off from the outside world by mountain ranges, its only highway the wild river that carves its ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories more books like this by Alexander Morris add to wishlist The Council of Keewatin was an unelected legislative body and territorial government for the District of Keewatin in Canada. Lieutenant Governor Alexander Morris convinced the government that the new territorial government of the North West Territories would be unable to effectively administer land to the north and east of Manitoba. The preface ... see all copies from $11.50! new only from $12.94! \| signed copies
20	North of Reliance: A Personal Story of Living Beyond the Wilderness more books like this by David Olesen, Kristin Olesen (Photographer) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.78! new only from $50.00! \| first editions
21	Nunaga: ten years of Eskimo life. more books like this by Duncan Pryde add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The lost patrol more books like this by Dick North add to wishlist A spellbinding true tale worthy of Jack London. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $55.79! \| signed copies \| first editions
23	I, Nuligak more books like this by Nuligak add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24	The Third Suspect: The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Yellowknife's Mass Murderer more books like this by David Staples, Greg Owens, Grey Owens add to wishlist Giant Mine, Yellowknife, September 18, 1992. Months into a bitter labor dispute, a volatile situation is worsening. Some on the picket line are starting to call for blood. Already the mine has been vandalized with small bombings. At 8:30 a.m. this day, nine strike breakers cross the picket line and board a man-car going into the mine. Minutes ... see all copies from $13.00!
25 view cover	A death on the barrens more books like this by George James Grinnell add to wishlist In 1955, five men in their early twenties set off with 36-year-old Art Moffat on a canoe trip through Canada's arctic. The group was unprepared for the cold. They ran out of food and winter closed in. Then the group inadvertently went over a waterfall and the leader. Art Moffat died of hypothermia. One of the young men on the trip, George Grinnell ... see all copies from $11.50! new only from $14.82! \| signed copies \| SVS

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