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  <name><![CDATA[Stephen R. Bown]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[My book Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail was an international critical success and was selected as one of the Globe and Mail's Top 100 books of 2004. My next book A Most Damnable Invention: Dynamite, Nitrates and the Making of the Modern World, was included in the Scientific American Book Club, the History Book Club and the Quality Paperback Book Club as well as being shortlisted for two awards. My most recent book, Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver, was shortlisted for the Canadian Authors' Association's Lela Common Award for Canadian History and won the 2009 B.C. Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie.

Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World is published in Canada in the fall of 2009 and will be published in the Unites States and the UK in the spring of 2010. It has received excellent reviews so far.

I live in a smaller town in the Rocky Mountains with my wife Nicky and two children. When I'm not writing I'm usually reading, mountain biking, hiking and camping in the summer, and downhill and cross country skiing in the winter.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Ottawa</hometown>  <born_at>07/22/1967</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[MOVING IN CANADA: What You Need to Know Before Relocating to a New Province or Territory]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Forgotten Highways: Wilderness Journeys Down the Historic Trails of the Canadian Rockies]]></title>
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