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COLLETTE VACATIONS
Atlantic Coastal Experience
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Lonely Planet Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island
Karla Zimmerman
GUIDEBOOK
2007
PAPER
304 PAGES
This compact guide to Atlantic Canada covers Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island in detail, and includes a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador. With maps, travel information and short essays on culture, attractions and nature.
(CND291, $16.99) |
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My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries and Preoccupations
Howard Norman
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
2004
HARD COVER
208 PAGES
FAVORITE
Howard Norman returned to Nova Scotia over a period of 30 years to interview local legends and research the folklore of the area. Norman writes with an impressionistic intimacy to create a portrait of this enchanting place and its people. A volume in the National Geographic Directions series.
(CND204, $20.00) |
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One Man's Meat
E.B. White
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1997
PAPER
279 PAGES
A collection of observant, personal, and often humorous essays about daily life on a Maine saltwater farm. Originally published in 1938, and written by E.B. White, author of the children's classics "Charlotte's Web," "Trumpet of the Swan" and "Stuart Little," this book is a wonderful portrait of coastal, small town life.
(USE43, $14.95) |
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Atlantic Canada Map
Rand McNally Maps
2008
MAP
A detailed map of Canada's Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland at a scale of 1:800,000. Newfoundland appears on one side, with New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island on the other. It also includes insets of the major cities and short informational paragraphs about regions of interest. Two Sides. 27x39 inches.
(CND50, $4.95) |
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Acadia National Park Map
Trails Illustrated
MAP
A hiker's detailed topographic map of Acadia National Park, shown at a scale of 1:50,000, printed on tear-resistant, waterproof paper. Two Sides. 37x25 inches.
(USE154, $11.95) |
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Nova Scotia & Prince Edward Island Map
ITMB
This provincial map (1:400,000) includes Prince Edward Island and adjacent New Brunswick.
(CND45, $9.95) |
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Acadia, The Complete Guide
James Kaiser
GUIDEBOOK
A full-color informative guide on where to go, what to do, and how to get the most out of hikes and other adventures in Maine.
(USE398, $22.99) |
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Moon Handbook Atlantic Canada
Mark Morris
GUIDEBOOK
A comprehensive guide to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island. With regional maps and detailed descriptions of St. John's and other points of interest, along with an overview of the people, wildlife and history of the region.
(CAN02, $19.95) |
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Nova Scotia, A Colourguide
Stephen Poole
Al Kingsbury
Keith Vaughan
GUIDEBOOK
A slim, region-by-region guide to Nova Scotia, featuring hundreds of color photographs. Published in Canada, it is a nice introduction to the province and its various attractions. Sixth edition.
(CND89, $16.95) |
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A Traveller's History of Canada
Robert Bothwell
HISTORY
A readable and admirably concise march through Canadian history from prehistory to today, including a timeline.
(CND82, $14.95) |
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Why I Hate Canadians
Will Ferguson
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
The tenth anniversary edition of Ferguson's wickedly astute cultural salvo, the collection of humorous essays that launched his career. As you might guess, the title is tongue-in-cheek.
(CND154, $15.95) |
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Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery
LITERATURE
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
The immensely popular children's novel set on Prince Edward Island. Anne, an 11-year-old orphan, moves to the small town of Avonlea when she is adopted by an elderly brother and sister.
(CND39, $4.95) |
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Burden of Desire
Robert MacNeil
LITERATURE
An intricate, suspenseful novel of love and war set against the backdrop of the 1917 explosion that destroyed the north end of Halifax. Written by the noted newsman Robert MacNeil.
(CND23, $16.00) |
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Cape Breton Road
D.R. MacDonald
LITERATURE
A young car thief from Boston is sent to live with his uncle on Cape Breton Island.
(CND192, $21.95) |
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Empire Falls
Richard Russo
LITERATURE
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel lovingly set in a fictitious Maine mill town. Russo has composed an entertaining and poignant portrait of what lies beneath the facade of small-town New England life.
(USE220, $15.00) |
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Fall on your Knees
Ann-Marie MacDonald
LITERATURE
A best-selling epic following the lives of a Lebanese-Canadian family from Cape Breton Island throughout the first half of the 20th century.
(CND49, $16.00) |
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No Great Mischief
Alistair MacLeod
LITERATURE
A novel covering 200 years in the history of a family of Scottish immigrants living in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. MacLeod creates a modern saga of the immigrant experience, familial bonds and life in coastal Canada.
(CND48, $14.95) |
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Acadia National Park Wildlife, An Introduction to Familiar Species
James Kavanagh
NATURAL HISTORY
A handy, shirt-pocket guide with illustrations of commonly encountered wildlife in Acadia.
(USE438, $5.95) |
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Cod, A Biography of a Fish That Changed the World
Mark Kurlansky
NATURAL HISTORY
A sparkling extended essay on the cod in the tradition of Lopez or McPhee, looking at the importance of the fish to cuisine and commerce, throwing much light on the plight of the Grand Banks and fisheries.
(OCE10, $15.00) |
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Wild Nova Scotia
Len Wagg
Bob Bancroft
NATURAL HISTORY
A collection of stunning color photographs of Nova Scotia's landscapes and wildlife, from butterflies and blossoms to rocky coastlines, river valleys and mist-shrouded lakes.
(CND290, $29.95) |
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A Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife: Marine Mammals, Seabirds, Fish and Other Sea Life
Noble S. Proctor
Patrick J. Lynch
FIELD GUIDE
A comprehensive pocket guide to commonly encountered marine mammals, seabirds and other marine life of Northeastern North America, from North Carolina to Newfoundland and the Canadian Maritimes.
(NAM24, $19.95) |
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Maine Trees & Wildflowers
James Kavanagh
FIELD GUIDE
This plastic card illustrates 140 common species of trees, shrubs and wildflowers.
(USE446, $5.95) |
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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
National Geographic
FIELD GUIDE
From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide, now in its fifth edition is the one to carry.
(FG09, $24.00) |
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The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
David Sibley
FIELD GUIDE
A compact, geographically-specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird with status, habitat, range, voice and identifying marks.
(USE262, $19.95) |
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