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Les routes de glace

par France Imbeault ...

Dans ce récit autobiographique vif et sans détour, France Imbeault retrace son parcours de camionneuse dans le Grand Nord canadien, jusqu’aux mythiques routes de glace. Elle raconte son apprentissage du métier au Québec, ses premiers contrats précaires, puis son départ vers l’Ouest pour conduire des camions-citernes sur des lacs gelés, dans des conditions climatiques extrêmes. Elle affronte le ... En savoir plus

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Dans ce récit autobiographique vif et sans détour, France Imbeault retrace son parcours de camionneuse dans le Grand Nord canadien, jusqu’aux mythiques routes de glace. Elle raconte son apprentissage du métier au Québec, ses premiers contrats précaires, puis son départ vers l’Ouest pour conduire des camions-citernes sur des lacs gelés, dans des conditions climatiques extrêmes. Elle affronte le
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Space

A thrilling human history by Britain's beloved astronaut Tim Peake

par Tim Peake ...

From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake, an inspirational human history of space travel, from the Apollo missions to our future forays to Mars. The Right Stuff for a new generation.**THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANY SPACE TRAVEL ENTHUSIAST____________________________________________________________________'This book is brilliant - once in a blue moon. A book for the whole family.' Chris ... En savoir plus

$12.99 CAD

From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake, an inspirational human history of space travel, from the Apollo missions to our future forays to Mars. The Right Stuff for a new generation.**THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANY SPACE TRAVEL ENTHUSIAST____________________________________________________________________'This book is brilliant - once in a blue moon. A book for the whole family.' Chris
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Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars

The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission

par Col. Eileen M. Collins USAF (Retired), Jonathan H. Ward ...

The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time.Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well as the first to pilot the space shuttle to her early years as one of the Air Force’s first female pilots. She was in the first class of women to ... En savoir plus

$24.99 CAD

The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time.Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well as the first to pilot the space shuttle to her early years as one of the Air Force’s first female pilots. She was in the first class of women to
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Wings of Madness

Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight

par Paul Hoffman ...

This ebook does not include illustrations.From the author of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, winner of the prestigious Rhone-Poulenc science award: the history of aviation told through the extraordinary story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, the forgotten man who battled to be the first to free himself from the confines of the earth.Ask most people who flew the first aeroplane and you'll get the same ... En savoir plus

$9.99 CAD

This ebook does not include illustrations.From the author of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, winner of the prestigious Rhone-Poulenc science award: the history of aviation told through the extraordinary story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, the forgotten man who battled to be the first to free himself from the confines of the earth.Ask most people who flew the first aeroplane and you'll get the same
... En savoir plus
A Night to Remember

The Sinking of the Titanic

par Walter Lord ...

Collections Livre 1 - The Titanic Chronicles
#1 New York Times Bestseller: The definitive book on the sinking of the Titanic , based on interviews with survivors, by the author of The Miracle of Dunkirk ."Absolutely gripping and un-put-downable." —David McCullough, author of John AdamsAt first, no one but the lookout recognized... ... En savoir plus

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#1 New York Times Bestseller: The definitive book on the sinking of the Titanic , based on interviews with survivors, by the author of The Miracle of Dunkirk ."Absolutely gripping and un-put-downable." —David McCullough, author of John AdamsAt first, no one but the lookout recognized...
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Live to Ride

Finding Joy and Meaning on a Bicycle

par Peter Flax ...

A visual celebration of the beauty and lure of bicycle culture by renowned cycling journalist Peter Flax.Live to Ride is an ode to cycling from one of the world’s most respected cycling journalists. The bicycle is one of the greatest inventions in human history. It can literally transport you to places you want to go—to your school or office, to the summit of a local hilltop, to some objective in ... En savoir plus

Prix courant $19.99 CAD Maintenant $2.99 CAD

A visual celebration of the beauty and lure of bicycle culture by renowned cycling journalist Peter Flax.Live to Ride is an ode to cycling from one of the world’s most respected cycling journalists. The bicycle is one of the greatest inventions in human history. It can literally transport you to places you want to go—to your school or office, to the summit of a local hilltop, to some objective in
... En savoir plus
Narrow Focus

The Narrow Boat Books

par Marie Browne ...

Collections series The Narrow Boat Books
Peace and tranquillity. For once nothing terrible is happening. After years of dodgy moorings, ankle-deep mud, exploding toilets and all the other normalities of live-aboard life, the Brownes now seem to have found the perfect spot in which to park Minerva, their aging narrowboat. Marie and family finally find the time to work on the outside of the boat and even take a holiday or two. It looks as ... En savoir plus

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Peace and tranquillity. For once nothing terrible is happening. After years of dodgy moorings, ankle-deep mud, exploding toilets and all the other normalities of live-aboard life, the Brownes now seem to have found the perfect spot in which to park Minerva, their aging narrowboat. Marie and family finally find the time to work on the outside of the boat and even take a holiday or two. It looks as
... En savoir plus
Dominion

The Railway and the Rise of Canada

par Stephen Bown ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed Best Book of the Year by the Globe and Mail, History Today and The Hill TimesA gripping and eye-opening account of the building of the engineering triumph that created a nation: the Canadian Pacific Railway**The sharp decline of the demand for fur in the late nineteenth century could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson’s Bay Company, but an idea ... En savoir plus

$14.99 CAD

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed Best Book of the Year by the Globe and Mail, History Today and The Hill TimesA gripping and eye-opening account of the building of the engineering triumph that created a nation: the Canadian Pacific Railway**The sharp decline of the demand for fur in the late nineteenth century could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson’s Bay Company, but an idea
... En savoir plus
Transport for Humans

Are We Nearly There Yet?

par Pete Dyson, Rory Sutherland ...

Collections series Perspectives
Engineers plan transport systems, people use them. But the ways in which an engineer measures success – speed, journey time, efficiency – are often not the way that passengers think about a good trip. We are not cargo. We choose how and when to travel, influenced not only by speed and time but by habit, status, comfort, variety – and many other factors that engineering equations don’t capture at ... En savoir plus

$14.39 CAD

Engineers plan transport systems, people use them. But the ways in which an engineer measures success – speed, journey time, efficiency – are often not the way that passengers think about a good trip. We are not cargo. We choose how and when to travel, influenced not only by speed and time but by habit, status, comfort, variety – and many other factors that engineering equations don’t capture at
... En savoir plus
Barons of the Sea

And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship

par Steven Ujifusa ...

“A fascinating, fast-paced history…full of remarkable characters and incredible stories” about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades (Nathaniel Philbrick, National Book Award–winning author of In the Heart of the Sea).There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into their own, ... En savoir plus

$19.99 CAD

“A fascinating, fast-paced history…full of remarkable characters and incredible stories” about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades (Nathaniel Philbrick, National Book Award–winning author of In the Heart of the Sea).There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into their own,
... En savoir plus
Road to Nowhere

What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation

par Paris Marx ...

How to build a transportation system to provide mobility for allRoad to Nowhere exposes the flaws in Silicon Valley’s vision of the future: ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft to take us anywhere; electric cars to make them ‘green’; and automation to ensure transport is cheap and ubiquitous. Such promises are implausible and potentially dangerous.As Paris Marx shows, these technological ... En savoir plus

$11.19 CAD

How to build a transportation system to provide mobility for allRoad to Nowhere exposes the flaws in Silicon Valley’s vision of the future: ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft to take us anywhere; electric cars to make them ‘green’; and automation to ensure transport is cheap and ubiquitous. Such promises are implausible and potentially dangerous.As Paris Marx shows, these technological
... En savoir plus
The Happy Bottom Riding Club

The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes

par Lauren Kessler ...

Pancho Barnes was a force of nature, a woman who lived a big, messy, colorful, unconventional life. She ran through three fortunes, four husbands, and countless lovers. She outflew Amelia Earhart, outsmarted Howard Hughes, outdrank the Mexican Army, and out- maneuvered the U.S. government. In The Happy Bottom Riding Club, award-winning author Lauren Kessler tells the story of a high-spirited, ... En savoir plus

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Pancho Barnes was a force of nature, a woman who lived a big, messy, colorful, unconventional life. She ran through three fortunes, four husbands, and countless lovers. She outflew Amelia Earhart, outsmarted Howard Hughes, outdrank the Mexican Army, and out- maneuvered the U.S. government. In The Happy Bottom Riding Club, award-winning author Lauren Kessler tells the story of a high-spirited,
... En savoir plus
Endurance

Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

par Alfred Lansing ...

**The legendary and harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackelton’s 1914 shipwreck on Antarctic ice – and how his leadership rescued his crew“One of the greatest adventure stories of our time.” –New York Times Book Review**In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In ... En savoir plus

Prix courant $19.99 CAD Maintenant $12.99 CAD

**The legendary and harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackelton’s 1914 shipwreck on Antarctic ice – and how his leadership rescued his crew“One of the greatest adventure stories of our time.” –New York Times Book Review**In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In
... En savoir plus
The Gales of November

The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

par John U. Bacon ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSmithsonian • 10 Best History Books of 2025Bookpage • Best Books of 2025"A work of spectral beauty destined to be a classic. Readers of Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm, Erik Larsen’s Dead Wake, and Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Heart of the Sea will love this deeply reported tale." —Hampton Sides, New York Times best-selling author of The Wide Wide Sea and In the... ... En savoir plus

$35.79 CAD

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSmithsonian • 10 Best History Books of 2025Bookpage • Best Books of 2025"A work of spectral beauty destined to be a classic. Readers of Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm, Erik Larsen’s Dead Wake, and Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Heart of the Sea will love this deeply reported tale." —Hampton Sides, New York Times best-selling author of The Wide Wide Sea and In the...
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The Last Flight

The Untold Story of the Search for JFK Jr. and the Race Against the Atlantic

par Theresa M. Webster, Captain W. Russell Webster ...

"A technically rich, warmly patriotic account.” - Kirkus ReviewsOne of Town & Country’s Best Books of the FallOn a hazy July night in 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and her sister Lauren vanished over the waters off Martha’s Vineyard—triggering a national vigil and one of the most ambitious search operations in American history. For days, the world watched and waited.But the full ... En savoir plus

$19.99 CAD

"A technically rich, warmly patriotic account.” - Kirkus ReviewsOne of Town & Country’s Best Books of the FallOn a hazy July night in 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and her sister Lauren vanished over the waters off Martha’s Vineyard—triggering a national vigil and one of the most ambitious search operations in American history. For days, the world watched and waited.But the full
... En savoir plus
Ghost Rider

Travels on the Healing Road

par Neil Peart ...

Within a ten-month period, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. This memoir tells of the sense of personal devastation that led him on a 55,000-mile journey by motorcycle across much of North America, down through Mexico to Belize, and back ... En savoir plus

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Within a ten-month period, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. This memoir tells of the sense of personal devastation that led him on a 55,000-mile journey by motorcycle across much of North America, down through Mexico to Belize, and back
... En savoir plus
Motorcycling in the 1970s The story of biking's biggest, brightest and best ever decade Volume 4:

Funky Motorcycling! Biking in the 1970s - Part Three

par Richard Skelton ...

Collections Livre 3 - Motorcycling in the 1970s
'Motorcycling in the 1970s. The story of motorcycling's biggest, brightest and best ever decade' Volumes One to Five by Richard Skelton, author of Funky Mopeds.'Motorcycling in the 1970s' is a series of five books about motorcycling. The books are designed to be read together, but can also be enjoyed separately.The first volume, 'A Brief History of Motorcycling from 1887 to 1969', is a general ... En savoir plus

$3.67 CAD

'Motorcycling in the 1970s. The story of motorcycling's biggest, brightest and best ever decade' Volumes One to Five by Richard Skelton, author of Funky Mopeds.'Motorcycling in the 1970s' is a series of five books about motorcycling. The books are designed to be read together, but can also be enjoyed separately.The first volume, 'A Brief History of Motorcycling from 1887 to 1969', is a general
... En savoir plus
Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men

par Peter FitzSimons ...

The must-read story of the boy from Brisbane who became a wartime hero and aviation trailblazer.In an action-packed life, the indomitable 'Smithy' went from fighting as a soldier amid the carnage of Gallipoli and the Western Front to taking to the skies against the likes of the Red Baron - for which he won the Military Cross for gallantry - before becoming the greatest peacetime aviator of his ... En savoir plus

$11.99 CAD

The must-read story of the boy from Brisbane who became a wartime hero and aviation trailblazer.In an action-packed life, the indomitable 'Smithy' went from fighting as a soldier amid the carnage of Gallipoli and the Western Front to taking to the skies against the likes of the Red Baron - for which he won the Military Cross for gallantry - before becoming the greatest peacetime aviator of his
... En savoir plus
Peking to Paris

Life and Love on a Short Drive Around Half the World

par Dina Bennett ...

In May 2007, leaving China’s Great Wall is Car 84, one of 128 antique autos racing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. It’s guided by one Dina Bennett, the world’s least likely navigator: a daydreamer prone to carsickness, riddled with self-doubt, and married to a thrill-seeking perfectionist who is half-human, half-racecar. What could possibly go wrong?Funny, self-deprecating, and marred by ... En savoir plus

$11.99 CAD

In May 2007, leaving China’s Great Wall is Car 84, one of 128 antique autos racing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. It’s guided by one Dina Bennett, the world’s least likely navigator: a daydreamer prone to carsickness, riddled with self-doubt, and married to a thrill-seeking perfectionist who is half-human, half-racecar. What could possibly go wrong?Funny, self-deprecating, and marred by
... En savoir plus
Falling Upwards

Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts

par Richard Holmes ...

Lose yourself in the clouds with bestselling and prize-winning biographer and science writer Richard Holmes in this glorious history of hot-air ballooning.Hot-air balloons have drifted through Richard Holmes’s work for many years. And now, in this heart-lifting book he tells the story of these ineffably romantic floating machines and the reckless invention of the adventurers who flew them.His ... En savoir plus

$11.99 CAD

Lose yourself in the clouds with bestselling and prize-winning biographer and science writer Richard Holmes in this glorious history of hot-air ballooning.Hot-air balloons have drifted through Richard Holmes’s work for many years. And now, in this heart-lifting book he tells the story of these ineffably romantic floating machines and the reckless invention of the adventurers who flew them.His
... En savoir plus
Devotion

An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

par Adam Makos ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • A “riveting” (USA Today) true tale of courage during America’s “forgotten war” in Korea, from the author of A Higher Call and Spearhead“In the spirit of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat comes Devotion.”—Associated Press“Aerial drama at its best—fast, powerful, and moving.”—Erik Larson<... ... En savoir plus

$15.99 CAD

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • A “riveting” (USA Today) true tale of courage during America’s “forgotten war” in Korea, from the author of A Higher Call and Spearhead“In the spirit of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat comes Devotion.”—Associated Press“Aerial drama at its best—fast, powerful, and moving.”—Erik Larson<...
... En savoir plus
Revolutionary Ride

On the Road to Shiraz, the Heart of Iran

par Lois Pryce ...

"A proper travelogue - a joyful, moving and stereotype-busting ride." - National Geographic Traveller, Book of the YearIn 2011, at the height of tension between the British and Iranian governments, travel writer Lois Pryce found a note left on her motorcycle outside the Iranian Embassy in London:... I wish that you will visit Iran so you will see for yourself about my country. WE ARE NOT ... En savoir plus

$17.99 CAD

"A proper travelogue - a joyful, moving and stereotype-busting ride." - National Geographic Traveller, Book of the YearIn 2011, at the height of tension between the British and Iranian governments, travel writer Lois Pryce found a note left on her motorcycle outside the Iranian Embassy in London:... I wish that you will visit Iran so you will see for yourself about my country. WE ARE NOT
... En savoir plus
History of Electric Cars

par Nigel Burton ...

One hundred years ago electric cars were the most popular automobiles in the world. In the late nineteenth century and at the start of the twentieth century, they outsold every other type of car. And yet, within a couple of decades of the start of the twentieth century, the electric car had vanished. Thousands of battery-powered cars disappeared from the streets, replaced by the internal ... En savoir plus

$28.39 CAD

One hundred years ago electric cars were the most popular automobiles in the world. In the late nineteenth century and at the start of the twentieth century, they outsold every other type of car. And yet, within a couple of decades of the start of the twentieth century, the electric car had vanished. Thousands of battery-powered cars disappeared from the streets, replaced by the internal
... En savoir plus
His Majesty's Airship

The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine

par S. C. Gwynne ...

From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a “captivating, thoroughly researched” (The New York Times Book Review) aviation history detailing the rise and fall of the world’s largest airship—and the doomed love story between an ambitious British officer and a married Romanian princess at its heart.The tragic fate of the British airship R101 ... En savoir plus

$14.99 CAD

From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a “captivating, thoroughly researched” (The New York Times Book Review) aviation history detailing the rise and fall of the world’s largest airship—and the doomed love story between an ambitious British officer and a married Romanian princess at its heart.The tragic fate of the British airship R101
... En savoir plus

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