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THE OIL MAN AND THE SEA
KOPECKY, ARNO
With oil and gas behemoth Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway proposal nearing approval, supertankers
loaded with two million barrels of oil may soon be plying the waters from northern British Columbia down
the wild Pacific Coast. This region is home to the largest tract of temperate rainforest on earth, First
Nations who have lived there for millennia, and some of the world’s most biodiverse waters—one spill is
all it will take to erase ten thousand years of evolution. Arno Kopecky and his companions travel aboard a
forty-one-foot sailboat exploring the pristine route—a profoundly volatile marine environment that
registered 1,275 marine vessel incidents—mechanical failures, collisions, explosions, groundings, and
sinkings—between 1999 and 2009 alone. Neither Kopecky nor the boat’s owner have ever sailed before,
yet they brave these waters alone when their captain leaves them part way through the journey.
CANADIAN ISSUES
DOUGLAS & MCINTYRE
9781771001076
$26.95 TP Original
SEPTEMBER 2013
ONCE UPON A TIME: BEHIND THE MAGIC
BOOKS TITAN
A behind-the-scenes look at the magic of Once Upon a Time.
FILM
TITAN
9781782760290
$18.95 TP Original
OCTOBER 2013
176 PAGES
ONE DAY IN AUGUST
O'KEEFE, DAVID
The Dieppe Raid--the darkest day in Canadian military history--has been one of the most perplexing
mysteries of WWII, when almost 4,000 Canadian amphibious troops stormed the small French port town,
only to be ambushed by the waiting Germans, slaughtered, wounded or captured. This catastrophe,
coupled with the 7 decades-long mystery surrounding the reason for the operation, left a legacy of
bitterness and recriminations and controverial charges ranging from incompetence to conspiracy.
O'Keefe's detective-like research over 15 years in the Intelligence archives of 5 countries now reveals that
it was a vitally secret "pinch raid," organized by British Naval Intelligence and the Joint Intelligence
Committee. The mission: under cover of a raid to secretly steal the German code books that would unlock
the Enigma cipher machine that held the key to the German High Command's plans. One of the key
figures behind the mission, along with Mountbatten and Churchill, was Commander Ian Fleming, waiting
in a ship off-shore for the code books that might have saved countless lives and shortened the war by
some years.
HISTORY
KNOPF CANADA
9780345807694
$35.00 HC
NOVEMBER 2013
1ST PRINTING 20,000 IN CANADA
400 PAGES