Was ist der American Dream? Harry Graf Kessler besucht 1896/97 Amerika und geht dabei eben jener Frage auf den Grund. Er beginnt seine Reiseroute in New York und beschreibt scharfsinnig, aber zugleich humorvoll die amerikanische Gesellschaft. Johannes Steck nimmt den Horer in einer ungekurzten Lesung mit auf diese Reise. ...
Harry Graf Kessler halt in seinem Tagebuch den ersten Revolutionstag der Novemberrevolution 1918 fest, es ist ein beeindruckendes Zeugnis eines der wichtigsten Tage der Deutschen Geschichte. Johannes Steck rezitiert den Tagebucheintrag zu den Ereignsissen des 9. November 1918. ...
Born in 1934, Peter Gzowski covered most of the last half of the century as a journalist and interviewer. This biography, the most comprehensive and definitive yet published, is also a portrait of Canada during those decades, beginning with Gzowski's days at the University of Toronto's The Varsity in the mid 1950s, through his years as the youngest-ever managing editor of Maclean's in the 1960s and his tremendous success on CB ...
In 1931 Grey Owl published his first book, The Men of the Last Frontier , a work that is part memoir, part history of the vanishing wilderness in Canada, and part compendium of animal and First Nations tales and lore. A passionate, compelling appeal for the protection and preservation of the natural environment pervades Grey Owls words and makes his literary debut still ring with great relevance in the 21st century. By the 1920s, Canadas outpo ...
Born in Hearne, Saskatchewan, in 1932, Allan Fotheringham has had a distinguished career. Dubbed «Dr. Foth,» Fotheringham graduated from the University of British Columbia and has worked for numerous news organizations, including the Vancouver Sun , Southam News, The Financial Post , Sun Media, the Globe and Mail , and most notably as a long-time columnist for Maclean's . His career has taken him to many places on almost every continen ...
Sandford Fleming knew fame and many honours later in life, but the path was not always easy. His beginnings are revealed in these early diaries that record his thoughts as an eighteen-year-old leaving his family home in Scotland for Canada. After unsuccessful attempts to get work as a surveyor, he finally made important contacts in Toronto, and through involvement with the Mechanics' Institute and the (Royal) Canadian Institute, became co ...
By the time he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in 2007, Mischa Weisz had all he needed to face the fight of his life. A child of Holocaust survivors, he felt distant from his parents and had no idea of his own heritage until he was well into his teens – too late to adopt it as his own. When Mischa and his first wife split, he battled for custody of their son and daughter, emerging as an unlikely but devoted single father living on ...
Originally published in the early 1950s, The Scalpel, the Sword celebrates the turbulent career of Dr. Norman Bethune (1890-1939), a brilliant surgeon, campaigner against private medicine, communist, and graphic artist. Bethune belonged to that international contingent of individuals who recognized the threat of fascism in the world and went out courageously to try to defeat it. Born in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Bethune introduced innovative tech ...
Short-listed for the 2010 Banff Mountain Book Festival Competition The Mountain Knows No Expert epitomizes George Evanoff’s philosophy towards the outdoors, while presenting an intriguing contrast with the man himself. Widely regarded as an «expert,» he was a knowledgeable, experienced, and practical outdoorsman, teacher, and mentor, yet ironically lost his life in the mountains in an encounter with a grizzly. Son of a Macedonian immigrant fa ...
