Alan Bowker worked for thirty-five years in Canada’s foreign service, including serving as high commissioner to Guyana. He has a doctorate in Canadian history and has taught at Canada’s Royal Military College. He has edited two collections of essays by Stephen Leacock, including On the Front Line of Life and Social Criticism. He lives in Ottawa.
7 Ebooks by Alan Bowker
Alan Bowker: On the Front Line of Life
In the last decade of his life, Leacock turned to writing informal essays that blended humour with a conversational style and ripened wisdom to address the issues he cared about most – education, lit …
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€7.49
Alan Bowker: A Time Such as There Never Was Before
Ottawa Book Award 2015 — Shortlisted Between 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.| The years after World W …
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€7.49
Alan Bowker: Alan Bowker’s Canadian Heritage 2-Book Bundle
In this two-book bundle, Alan Bowker sheds new light on two subjects with a surprising connection: the great Canadian writer Stephen Leacock and the rise of Canada on the world stage, which Leacock p …
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€11.99
Alan Bowker: Time Such as There Never Was Before
Ottawa Book Award 2015 – Shortlisted Between 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.|The years after World Wa …
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€36.85
Stephen Leacock: Social Criticism
Stephen Leacock, long celebrated as Canada’s foremost humorist and social satirist, has received little recognition for his considerable accomplishments as a serious thinker and social critic. In fac …
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€30.87
Stephen Leacock: Social Criticism
Stephen Leacock, long celebrated as Canada’s foremost humorist and social satirist, has received little recognition for his considerable accomplishments as a serious thinker and social critic. In fac …
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English
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€28.07
Alan Bowker: On the Front Line of Life
In the last decade of his life, Leacock turned to writing informal essays that blended humour with a conversational style and ripened wisdom to address the issues he cared about most – education, lit …
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English
DRM
€21.61
