The true saga of families torn apart by the struggle for independence in revolutionary North America. Resonating with authentic and engrossing historical detail and the poignancy of real lives lived amid extraordinary hardship and passion, this tale of loyalty and betrayal is a unique example of storytelling on a grand scale.

Blood Traitors

History

Marq De Villiers

Sheila Hirtle

Americas

Harpercollins

The heartbreak grape: A journey in search of the perfect pinot noir

HarperCollins Canada / Not Applicable

A glittering geographic tour of the remarkable history, peoples, climate, creatures, sights and sounds of the largest and most austere desert on earth. Ten thousand years ago, the Sahara was a temperate grassland -- petrified trees mark where forests used to stand, and former riverbeds are rich in the petrified bones of hippos, elephants, zebras and gazelles. Then a slight shift in the earth's axis transformed it into the greatest desert in the world with astonishing speed. Massive sand dunes and continuously formed and dissolved by fierce winds, making the ever-shifting topography of the desert more uncertain and hazardous to navigate. The inhabitants of this desolate terrain barely eke out a living. Throughout the millennia, diverse populations have struggled to make this severe landscape home. Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle chronicle the desert's nations and peoples and legacies they have left to the sand: stone circles older than Stonehenge; Roman aqueducts; remnants of Greek fields and vineyards, and the ruins of palaces and temples along the Royal Road, a once busy trading route for gold and salt, resources that fuelled the economies of the great empires of Old Africa before centuries of conquests, religious wars and tribal turf battles destroyed them. Illuminated by written testimonies of past travellers, Sahara conveys the majesty, mystery and abundance of the desert's life in an evocative biography of the land and its people.

Sahara: The Life of the Great Desert

Africa

Harpercollins Pb

1st edition hardcover fine book in fine dw shipped from our UK warehouse

Into Africa: A Journey Through the Ancient Empires

Travel

Reference

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Examines the political and ecological consequences of the uses and misuses of water as increasing demands threaten the global supply--issues compounded by decreasing water table levels and rampant pollution.

Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Houghton/Mifflin

White tribe dreaming: Apartheid's bitter roots : notes of an eighth-generation Afrikaner

Macmillan of Canada

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