The history of the Persian Gulf during the 18th century is still little known. This gap is now being filled by the historian and renowned scholar W...

In Philip Timms' Vancouver, the city's "golden age" has been captured with spirit and style by one of British Columbia's foremost photographers. Ph...

On the 100th anniversary of its creation, this book celebrates Railways Studios - the design studio of the New Zealand Railways - and its role in h...

An account of the early history of El Rancho de las Golondrinas from the ranch's beginnings to its establishment as a living history museum, includ...

In the early days, Plains Indians travelled on foot across the vast Canadian prairies, with only fierce, wolf-like dogs as companions. Later, with ...

In the Nordic countries regions and regionalism have played a central role in politics, administration, economic and cultural life for a long time....

This entertaining collection of historical photographs, amusing newspaper accounts, reminiscences and letters celebrates the capricious antics that...

With long-forgotten stories and evocative photographs, San Francisco's Lost Landmarks showcases the once-familiar sites that have faded into dim me...

While nearly all of America's major rivers have been compromised, few have been so misused as the San Joaquin. In its comparatively brief history, ...

A century ago, San Juan Bautista was the hub of Northern California, a crossroads where, over the years, you would have encountered gentle Mutsune ...

The best selling novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has drawn hordes to the city, specifically to its best-known cemetery, Bonaventure. ...

Slumach's Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada's greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man's hanging for murder in...

This colourful chronicle of pioneering experience emerges from Virginia Stumbough's priceless collection of family letters, diaries, scrapbooks, al...

In the pre-Hollywood era, theatrical stars flocked to the New Jersey coast to escape the eastern cities' sweltering heat. After performing from Sep...

The 1920s were one of the wildest decades in Canada's history, a time of frivolous fads, shocking crimes, and political and social changes that def...

An amazing and inspiring collection of awesome success stories, including Tim Hortons coffee shops co-founder Ron Joyce and billionaire businessman...

Takitimu is one of the great tribal histories in the New Zealand literary canon. It tells of the Ngati Kahungunu people – tangata whenua of Hawke’s...

This volume marks the 2007 centenary of the Supreme Court of Alberta. These essays examine the extent to which the Court articulated an Albertan re...

Today, the Chesapeake Bay watermen's way of life is under pressure to survive. Captain Larry Simns has worked as a commercial fisherman in the wate...

By 1912 the large-scale cowboy ranches of the Old West had been disappearing for years and the Calgary Stampede -- along with other exhibitions, li...

Books have been written about the highway that Samuel C. Lancaster built. This is the book that he wrote. Lancaster is known to all who have studie...

"A landmark collection of documents by the field's leading scholar. This reader includes beautifully written introductions and a fascinating array ...

Manitobas history is one of being carved. Ice sculpted the land before nomadic first people pressed trails across it. Southern First Nations dug in...

This first-hand account of a Canadian pioneer -- the next title in TouchWood's Classics West series -- tells the story of a hard-won wilderness hom...

Learn the history and look at emerging tourism during the 1920s in New Jersey, through 276 postcards, vintage photographs, and fascinating accounts...

Although its mission and centrality to teaching and research remain fundamentally unchanged, the University of Alberta Library of today bears scant...

"I must have presented a strange and humorous sight to him as I carefully approached on the rickety pier, arms slightly extended for balance. Camer...

In over 180 vivid color photos, this beautiful book provides a photographic exploration of the lifestyles and landscape of Long Island's famed East...

The mighty Russian Empire was not built in a day -- from a small beginning and by a number of different processes it has grown to its present dimen...

Timeless tales about wilderness living. Eric Collier's riveting recollections about the 26 years that he, his wife Lillian and son Veasy spent home...

Life has changed in this beautiful seaside village on the elbow of Cape Cod since pioneers William and Anne Busby Nickerson bought it from the Mono...