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False Summit
Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction
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CA$140.00
ISBN: 9780228006268
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional white male heroism. Exploring classic and lesser-known expedition accounts from Everest, K2, and Annapurna, False Summit helps us understand why mountaineering remains one of the most important ways to articulate gender identities and politics.
False Summit
Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction
Price:
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780228006275
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional white male heroism. Exploring classic and lesser-known expedition accounts from Everest, K2, and Annapurna, False Summit helps us understand why mountaineering remains one of the most important ways to articulate gender identities and politics.
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CanLit in Ruins
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CA$25.00
ISBN: 9781771664318
Pub Date: November 2018
Imprint: Book*hug
CanLit--the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry--has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking...
Life Among the Qallunaat
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780887557750
Pub Date: April 2015
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Mini Aodla Freeman’s extraordinary story, sometimes humourous and sometimes heartbreaking, illustrates an Inuit woman’s movement between worlds and ways of understanding. This critical edition includes an afterword by Keavy Martin and Julie Rak, with Norma Dunning.
Negotiated Memory
Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774810319
Pub Date: January 2005
Imprint: UBC Press
This demonstrates how the Doukhobors employed both “classic” and alternative forms of autobiography to communicate their views about communal living, vegetarianism, activism, and spiritual life, as well as to pass on traditions to successive generations.
Life Among the Qallunaat
Price:
CA$25.00
ISBN: 9780887554902
Pub Date: April 2015
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Mini Aodla Freeman’s extraordinary story, sometimes humourous and sometimes heartbreaking, illustrates an Inuit woman’s movement between worlds and ways of understanding. This critical edition includes an afterword by Keavy Martin and Julie Rak, with Norma Dunning.
Boom!
Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market
Price:
CA$31.99
ISBN: 9781554589395
Pub Date: April 2013
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
From James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces to memoirs about bartending, Iran, the liberation of Dachau, hacking, and the impact of 9/11, this book argues that the memoir boom is more than a publishing trend. It is becoming the way readers try to understand major events in terms of individual experiences.
Auto/biography in Canada
Critical Directions
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CA$49.99
ISBN: 9780889204782
Pub Date: May 2005
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions widens the field of auto/biography studies with its sophisticated multidisciplinary perspectives on the theory, criticism, and practice of self, community,...
Mountain Masculinity
The Life and Writing of Nello “Tex” Vernon-Wood in the Canadian Rockies, 1906-1938
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CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781897425022
Pub Date: February 2008
Imprint: Athabasca University Press
A captivating portrait – in his own words – of Nello Vernon-Wood (1882-1978), who reinvented himself as a Banff hunting guide and writer of "yarns of the wilderness by a competent outdoorsman."
False Summit
Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction
CA$140.00
ISBN: 9780228006268
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
False Summit
Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780228006275
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Refuse
CanLit in Ruins
CA$25.00
ISBN: 9781771664318
Pub Date: November 2018
Imprint: Book*hug
Life Among the Qallunaat
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780887557750
Pub Date: April 2015
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Negotiated Memory
Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774810319
Pub Date: January 2005
Imprint: UBC Press
Life Among the Qallunaat
CA$25.00
ISBN: 9780887554902
Pub Date: April 2015
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Boom!
Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market
CA$31.99
ISBN: 9781554589395
Pub Date: April 2013
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
From James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces to memoirs about bartending, Iran, the liberation of Dachau, hacking, and the impact of 9/11, this book argues that the memoir boom is more than a publishing trend. It is becoming the way readers try to understand major events in terms of individual experiences.
Auto/biography in Canada
Critical Directions
CA$49.99
ISBN: 9780889204782
Pub Date: May 2005
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Mountain Masculinity
The Life and Writing of Nello “Tex” Vernon-Wood in the Canadian Rockies, 1906-1938
CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781897425022
Pub Date: February 2008
Imprint: Athabasca University Press