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SMITHSONIAN JOURNEYS
Canada's Maritime Provinces
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Lonely Planet Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island
• Karla Zimmerman
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 272 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, $17.99) |
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Eyewitness Top Ten Montreal & Quebec City
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 128 PAGES
A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions in Montreal and Quebec City.
(CND205, $14.00) |
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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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Northeastern USA, Eastern Canada Map
• Michelin
MAP
This colorful, double-sided, folded map of Eastern Canada and the United States, at a scale of 1:2,400,000, covers all the Great Lakes, south to Washington and Kansas city and north to Winnipeg and New Brunswick. It does not, however, include Newfoundland and Labrador. Two Sides. 39x27 inches.
(CND182, $6.95) |
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Also Recommended
Fodor's Montreal's 25 Best
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
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A shirt-pocket guide to Montreal, this slim book includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing.
(CND41, $11.99)
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Making the Most of Your Money Now
• Jane Bryant Quinn
• REFERENCE
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Quinn's classic book of financial advice, revised to address new tax laws, new forms of health insurance and the new investment climate.
(GEN545, $35.00)
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The Lies About Money, Why You Need to Own the Portfolio of the Future
• Ric Edelman
• REFERENCE
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Edelman reveals the deceptive business practices of retail mutual funds while offering ways to take control of your investments and financial future.
(GEN544, $16.00)
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A Traveller's History of Canada
• Robert Bothwell
• HISTORY
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A readable and admirably concise march through Canadian history from prehistory to today, including a timeline.
(CND82, $14.95)
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Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories
• Robert Bothwell
• HISTORY
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An in-depth look at Canada-Quebec relations through interviews with prominent Canadian figures.
(CND69, $32.95)
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How to Be a Canadian, Even If You Already Are One
• Ian Ferguson
• Will Ferguson
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A tongue-in-cheek portrait of Canadian people and society, written by two native sons. Not entirely (but mostly) in jest, the book is an insightful look at the Canadian national character.
(CND208, $18.95)
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Why I Hate Canadians
• Will Ferguson
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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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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Wolfe at Quebec, The Man Who Won the French and Indian War
• Christopher Hibbert
• HISTORY
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Hibbert brings the campaigns, life at Louisborg and dramatic capture of Quebec in 1759 to life in this tale of the neurotic, complex British general.
(CND67, $15.95)
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An Innocent in Newfoundland, Even More Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters
• David W. McFadden
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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In this entertaining chronicle and portrait of Newfoundland, McFadden stops in to visit poets and writers, pays homage to the Vikings at L'Anse aux Meadows, admires the puffins and -- as usual -- visits a few taverns en route.
(NFL20, $16.95)
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The Iambics of Newfoundland, Notes From an Unknown Shore
• Robert Finch
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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With boundless curiosity and a deft way with words, Finch captures the people, places and wildlife of Atlantic Canada with grace and insight in this engaging series of essays, the result of his travels all over the Province.
(NFL23, $15.95)
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Theatre of Fish, Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador
• John Gimlette
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A rollicking account of Gimlette's adventures in Newfoundland and Labrador on the trail of a great-great grandfather. It's a witty tale, soaked in fishy history, myth, lore and incident.
(CND234, $15.00)
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Anne of Green Gables
• Lucy Maud Montgomery
• LITERATURE
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This Norton critical edition includes excerpts from Montgomery's journals, letters, and juvenilia, commentary from Sir Walter Scott, Byron and Louisa May Alcott, and cultural context for the immensely popular 1908 novel.
(CND39, $19.95)
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Burden of Desire
• Robert MacNeil
• LITERATURE
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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, $25.95)
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Fall on your Knees
• Ann-Marie MacDonald
• LITERATURE
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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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Island, The Complete Stories
• Alistair MacLeod
• LITERATURE
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Raised in Cape Breton, Alistair MacLeod writes of family, the pull of old Gaelic traditions, love and the landscape and folkways of Nova Scotia in this collection of 16 stories. Winner of the Pen/Malamud Award.
(CND73, $15.95)
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No Great Mischief
• Alistair MacLeod
• LITERATURE
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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, $15.95)
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Shadows on the Rock
• Willa Cather
• LITERATURE
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Set at the end of the 17th century in rural Quebec, this beautifully realized novel highlights the struggles of the Parisian widower Auclair and his young daughter to adapt to their new land.
(CND10, $14.00)
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The Shipping News
• E. Annie Proulx
• LITERATURE
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An international bestseller that put Newfoundland on the world stage, this lyrical novel conjures the tough life of a recently divorced journalist struggling to get through the day in a remote fishing town.
(NFL03, $16.00)
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Cod, A Biography of a Fish That Changed the World
• Mark Kurlansky
• NATURAL HISTORY
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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
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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
• Noble S. Proctor
• Patrick J. Lynch
• FIELD GUIDE
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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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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
• Jon Dunn
• FIELD GUIDE
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From Alaska to Baja California, Nova Scotia and Florida, this guide is the veteran's choice for birding anywhere in the United States. Tabbed for easy access, the color range maps in this sixth edition are outstanding.
(FG09, $27.95)
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