Stan Rogers

Northwest Passage

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For hundreds of years explorers attempted to find the Northwest Passage - a route through the islands of Canada's north to the Pacific Ocean and Asia. Others attempted to find a land route. Many hundreds of men perished in the attempt until finally, in 1906, Roald Amundsen completed the voyage by ship. Today, global warming has brought the interest in the passage back to a fever pitch as nations contend with each other over its control and future uses. The historic search inspired Canadian folk musician Stan Rogers to write Northwest Passage,” a song that has become a widely known favorite since its 1981 release. It describes Stan's own journ… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: James, Matt (Illustr.)

ISBN: 978-1-55498-153-3
EAN: 9781554981533
Produktnummer: 12488525
Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 56 S.
Ausstattung: Bilderbuch
Abbildungen: Color illustrations throughout
Sonstiges: Ab 6 J.

Über den Autor

Stan Rogers (1949-1983) was a gifted Canadian musician whose fame is known throughout the English-speaking world of folk music. He began his musical career as a teen, playing as a rock bassist, and then started writing songs about his Maritime roots, which were recorded on his first album, Fogarty’s Cove. He had a talent for writing about the Canadian experience about the people who worked on farms, and in mines and fisheries across the country. He traveled frequently during the last years of his life and tragically died in an airline fire. The Canadian Conference of the Arts posthumously awarded Stan Rogers the Diplôme d’Honneur. The Ontario Council of Folk Festivals awarded him the Estelle Klein Lifetime Achievement Award, and SOCAN, a National Lifetime Achievement Award. Rogers’ music has been nominated twice for a Juno Award. The musical A Matter of Heart features Stan Rogers’ songs and stories, which continue to move people young and old.Matt James is a noted painter, illustrator and musician. His first picture book, Yellow Moon, Apple Moon by Pamela Porter, won the New Mexico Book Award and was a finalist for a Governor General’s Award. I Know Here by Laurel Croza, won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award. Matt has most recently illustrated Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers. He lives in Toronto. www.mattjames.ca