by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Adventures, Books
‘We need London’s mythical wolf almost as much as we need the wildernesses of the world, for without such ghost-animals from the depths of the human subconscious we are alone with ourselves’ – from the introduction. This volume of the best of...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Adventures, Books
Recently arrived in Calgary, Alberta, after a long, hard journey from Boston, sixteen-year-old Katherine Mary O’Fallon never imagined that she could lose her heart so easily – or so completely. Standing over six feet tall, with “eyes so blue you could swim in...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Adventures, Books
Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this and much more in a town with the unlikely name of Chicken, located deep in the Alaskan interior. It is 1927 and Chicken is a wild mining community flaming with gold...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 20, 2011 | Books, Children's
It hasn’t rained in the forest for many weeks. And in the sunny clearing, everything is dry and scorched. Then, late one afternoon, a hot wind begins to blow and storm clouds gather. But instead of rain, lightning fills the sky and strikes a tall tree beside the...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 20, 2011 | Books, Historical
A witty, brightly-written memoir of childhood in the Yukon, The Cinnamon Mine traces the adventures of the Porsild family from Denmark to Greenland, through Arctic Canada, and finally to remote Johnson’s Crossing , where they operated one of the first tourist...
