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This is the story of a champion of cancer treatment and care,
Sheila Kussner, and her best-known achievement, Hope & Cope, a
pioneering, peer-based support service for cancer patients. Sheila
also raised tens of millions of dollars to create the oncology
department of McGill University. But as this biography explores,
fundraising only scratches the surface of the character and deeds
of this remarkable figure. A survivor of bone cancer that claimed a
leg at age 14, Sheila Kussner has been a visionary in transforming
the way cancer is researched and treated, and an indefatigable
friend to anyone in need of support. Repairing the World delves
deeply into Sheila’s story, to help us understand how someone so
publicly and privately influential emerged, and how empathy has
been her defining motivation. The reader learns of the personal
challenges and crises that she confronted and overcame, and why her
determination to improve support for cancer patients, by harnessing
the experience and empathy of cancer patients themselves, was so
revolutionary on a global scale.
- The first in-depth book on redpointing, where the climber does
not weight the rope or pull or stand on manmade equipment -
Assessing your redpoint and on-sight skills, choosing a route, and
practicing with learning burns - The best ways to use equipment and
safest belay methods and rope tricks for working routes - Tips for
preparing mentally, physically, and emotionally for flash and
on-sight burns, climbs that you haven't attempted previously
Every schoolchild knows that "in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean
blue" - but what they don't teach you in history class is that he
wasn't the only one. In The Race to the New World, Douglas Hunter
tells for the first time the fascinating tale of how Christopher
Columbus was embroiled in a high-stakes race with Venetian John
Cabot to find a shortcut to the East - and how they found a New
World that neither was looking for. Employing fresh research and
new translations of critical documents, Hunter reveals the
surprisingly intertwined lives of the fabled explorer and his
forgotten rival, and provides a fresh perspective on the first
years of the European discovery of the New World.
Claimed by many to be the most frequently documented artifact in
American archeology, Dighton Rock is a forty-ton boulder covered in
petroglyphs in southern Massachusetts. First noted by New England
colonists in 1680, the rock's markings have been debated endlessly
by scholars and everyday people alike on both sides of the
Atlantic. The glyphs have been erroneously assigned to an array of
non-Indigenous cultures: Norsemen, Egyptians, Lost Tribes of
Israel, vanished Portuguese explorers, and even a prince from
Atlantis. In this fascinating story rich in personalities and
memorable characters, Douglas Hunter uses Dighton Rock to reveal
the long, complex history of colonization, American archaeology,
and the conceptualization of Indigenous people. Hunter argues that
misinterpretations of the rock's markings share common motivations
and have erased Indigenous people not only from their own history
but from the landscape. He shows how Dighton Rock for centuries
drove ideas about the original peopling of the Americas, including
Bering Strait migration scenarios and the identity of the "Mound
Builders." He argues the debates over Dighton Rock have served to
answer two questions: Who belongs in America, and to whom does
America belong?
From acclaimed author Douglas Hunter, a searing historical work
about death, deceit and dishonour, and the rivalry between Samuel
de Champlain and Henry Hudson-two of the greatest explorers of the
seventeenth century. Samuel de Champlain of France and Englishman
Henry Hudson were rival explorers in a race to describe and exploit
the northern half of North America and, not least, to find a
profitable passage to the Orient. The English had been trying to
find a way through the Arctic since the 1570s. For Hudson, the
dream of discovery proved fatal. A mutiny in the summer of 1611 saw
Hudson, his teenage son John, and seven other crew members cast
adrift in James Bay in an open boat. They were never heard from
again. In May 1613, Samuel de Champlain left the site of
present-day Montreal on a journey up the Ottawa River into
uncharted territory. Champlain had undertaken the expedition
because of extraordinary testimony from a young informant, Nicolas
de Vignau, who had spent 1611-12 with the Algonquin and returned to
France with an incredible story: He had visited the Northern Sea.
What's more, he had seen an English youth, the sole survivor of a
shipwreck, held captive by the Nebicerini people as a gift for
Champlain. To rescue both the English youth and his own career,
Champlain set out to collect him. God's Mercies has all the
elements of a great adventure mystery: a mutiny, a massacre, a
murder trial, signed confessions, and intrigue at the highest
levels of state. Truths would be revealed as lies, and lies would
turn out to be half-truths. "From the Hardcover edition."
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