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400 Kilometres
400 Kilometres is the third play in Drew Hayden Taylor's hilarious and heart-wrenching identity-politics trilogy Janice Wirth, a thirty-something urban professional, having discovered her roots as the Ojibway orphan Grace Wabung in Someday, and having visited her birth family on the Otter Lake Reserve in Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth, is pregnant, and must now come to grips with the question of her "true identity." Her adoptive parents have just retired, and are about to sell their house to embark on a quest for their own identity by returning to England. Meanwhile, the Native father of her child-to-be is attempting to convince Janice / Grace that their new generation's future lies with their "own people" at Otter Lake. .
Price: $16.95
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Strip - 1.5 Kilometres Of Urban Housing In The Hague
On the occasion of the construction of the 200,000th apartment in The Hague in 1988, an international housing festival was initiated Forty-five building lots along a one-and-a-half kilometer strip of the Dedemsvaartweg--for a total of 550 houses--are now nearly completely realized, according to an urban development plan designed by Rem Koolhaas's Office for Modern Architecture (OMA). Housing projects, dwellings, and villas, by Kas Oosterhuis, OMA, Mecanoo, MVRDV, DKV, Bernard Tschumi, and a roster of other leading contemporary architects, blend new materials, alternative energy sources, and flexible floor plans to offer a kaleidoscope of new possibilies in house-building and housing types. Strip gives a thorough and richly illustrated overview of the projects realized thus far on this one-and-a-half-kilometer-long experiment..
Price: $33.75
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Three Seasons in the Wind : 950 Kilometres by Canoe Down Northern Canada's Thelon River; 2nd Edition
Step outside the pressures of modern life, and join Michael and Kathleen's quest for beauty, solitude and adventure as they travel alone across the Barren Grounds of Canada. Their journey begins camped amid the decaying ice of a new Arctic spring, and ends 37 days later as they harvest blueberries before a final descent to Baker Lake at the head of Chesterfield Inlet on Hudson Bay. Simply, yet eloquently written, Three Seasons In The Wind transports the reader's imagination to the very banks of the magical Thelon River. By so doing, your heart will awaken to an ancient, nomadic lifestyle of physical challenge and timeless joy that is available to all who dare to pursue their dreams in Canada's pristine Northern landscape..
Price: $17.95
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