Looking for Billy takes us up Alaska's Haul Road all the way to the Arctic Sea. Every day alongside the road, above the tundra, billions of barrels of oil are being piped south from the wells discovered in the 1960's, on the North Slope. As a private detective sets out with his mysterious client to investigate protests against the pipeline, we learn what that oil discovery did to the indigenous Inupiat people of Alaska. Nicholas le Pr ...
After the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, OPEC used an oil embargo to punish the US and Europe for its support for Israel. By early 1974, the embargo had plunged the world into an economic crisis. Then on 21st December 1975, Venezuelan Marxist pin-up Carlos the Jackal storms the OPEC HQ in Vienna. He takes 96 hostages, including 11 oil ministers from OPEC countries. This is the story of the siege. Zubin Varla and Joseph Balderrama star in Jonath ...
Experience a ghostly thrill with Mark Leslie’s five books on strange supernatural happenings.</br></br> <b><i>Macabre Montreal</i></b> <br/> Montreal is steeped in history and culture. But there are dark tales, eerie stories, and ghostly spectres that come alive once the sun goes down. <br/> <br/> <b><i>Creepy Capital</i></b></br> True stories o ...
The biography of a British girl, split from her family by the British child migration program, learning to cope with her hard new life in Canada. Marjorie Too Afraid to Cry – Book #1 In 1937, 10-year-old Marjorie Arnison was shipped from Britain to Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School near Victoria, British Columbia. For years she wouldn't talk about her past. It wasn't until daughter Patricia explored archival records and shar ...
A collection of haunting legends, delightful yarns, and spine-tingling ghost stories. Swathed in mist, surrounded by the secretive sea, wind wailing like the lost souls of sailors around its shores, Prince Edward Island is the ideal setting for the strange and incredible, even the supernatural. Islanders have handed down, from one generation to the next, many legends and ghost stories of visiting spirits, buried pirate treasure, sea serpents, ...
A spine-tingling tour of Montreal's macabre sites By the author of Creepy Capital, Haunted Hamilton, Spooky Sudbury , and Tomes of Terror Mark Leslie's series of paranormal and spooky historical sightseeing guides have sold over 10,000 copies Includes stories about the Redpath family murders, Mark Twain's winter visit in 1881, the vanishing village of Hochelaga, and a macabre mafia mix-up ...
The travel writing of celebrated writer George Fetherling is filled with vivid prose and bizarre characters. <br/> <br/> Includes: <br/> <br/> <i>One Russia, Two Chinas</i> <br/> A travel narrative written over the course of ten years, <i>One Russia, Two Chinas</i> is about change and resistance to change in the postmodern world. A valuable document that freezes some important world ...
A new, expanded edition detailing Niagara-on-the-Lake’s ghostly inhabitants. Long-dead British soldiers, grieving lovers, lingering spirits – Niagara-on-the-Lake’s long and colourful history is kept alive by ghosts of its past. Through historical investigation and eyewitness accounts, Andrew Hind and Maria Da Silva share over two dozen ghostly tales: a murdered British officer haunts the Olde Angel Inn, a ghostly widow retaliates against coupl ...
