We celebrate Ottawa’s world-class non-fiction writers with this year's nominees for the Ottawa Book Award: Tim Cook, The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie; Charlotte Gray , Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike; Roy MacGregor, Northern Light: The Enduring Mystery of Tom Thomson and the Woman Who Loved Him; Lawrence Martin, Harperland: The Politics of Control and; Eric Enno Tamm, The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds.
Gold in the story and gold on the page. With meticulous research and a keen eye for the crucial detail, Charlotte Gray disentangles the story of the great Klondike Gold Rush from its myths and clichés to tell the story of the extraordinary adventurers who struggled to survive and prosper in a harsh land.
We celebrate Ottawa’s world-class non-fiction writers with this year's nominees for the Ottawa Book Award: Tim Cook, The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie; Charlotte Gray , Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike; Roy MacGregor, Northern Light: The Enduring Mystery of Tom Thomson and the Woman Who Loved Him; Lawrence Martin, Harperland: The Politics of Control and; Eric Enno Tamm, The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds.
