Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson (Untold Lives Series)

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Mont d’Or’ has flattened succulent pods of soft yellow. They are delicious cooked and served cold with vinaigrette dressing. These yellow beans are often called wax beans. Bourrie’s writing is grounded in a strong sense of place, partly because of his own extensive knowledge of the land and partly because of Radisson’s descriptive storytelling abilities…offering a valuable and rare glimpse into 17th-century North America.” Rather than employing clash-of-civilizations rhetoric, Bourrie shows himself a curious and eclectic writer unafraid to raise difficult questions about propaganda, war porn, and the still-evolving nature of a wired world. His historical overview of the waves of urban violence afflicting North America and Europe in the past 150 years undermines the idea that ours is an age without precedent.” Mr. Bourrie’s analysis of Radisson as an “eager hustler with no known scruples” seems to be on the mark. But those less-than-admirable traits helped create a prevailing mythology about his adventures. It also gave a Baron Munchausen-like quality to his stories that allowed him, in Gump-like fashion, to “Run Radisson Run” around the known world.

Although climbing beans can be grown in grow-bags this is rarely ideal. The small volume of compost means that it is difficult to keep them watered when fully grown; supporting the plants is a challenge. If you want to use grow bags then choose bush haricot beans.Red Rum’ is a popular choice because it is self-fertile and less dependent on pollinating insects. ‘Painted Lady’ is one of the most attractive with red and white showy flowers. But Canadian non-fiction, talking about memoirs, cookbooks, little kids books about dinosaurs, Canadian biographies, all that stuff accounts for less than five per cent of the Canadian book sales in Canada. And non-fiction is a little over 30 per cent. This book serves as an entry (A prize-winning book) in The Indigo Reading Challenge 2021. It won the most recent RBC Taylor Prize (2020) – one of the few prize winners that I have yet to read for the year.

There aren't too many. There is The Walrus, I would say maybe Chatelaine, maybe Macleans. Steve Maher wrote almost an entire issue of Macleans on how COVID got started in Canada. I mean, that's something Steve could have taken and made a book out of. Born in France around 1636, Radisson joined his half-sisters at a trading post in Canada when he was about 15. Within a year, he was captured by a Mohawk raiding party, but he impressed them so much that he was assimilated into their society. That was the beginning of an odyssey that no guest settling in for quiet night at a Radisson Blu could possibly invent. The Tomato 'Tumbler' I planted in VegTrug Poppy in the conservatory have made great progress. this bushy, trailing variety is ideally suited to pots and hanging baskets and I'm intending it to cascade over the sides of the VegTrug. The plants are already branched and producing flowers. As Poppy only holds a smaller volume of compost I will need to start feeding these soon. Although you do not usually start feeding with a tomato fertiliser until the first truss has set, I'm going to give these a weak solution of tomato feed from now on to prevent the plants from becoming thin and weak.Lies, murder, and plunder aside, Radisson left us with the story of a remarkable man, a very free man in a time when they were rare... and a brave man who must have been a tremendous dinner companion, as long as you weren't on the menu."