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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/LO2370. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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These 3 items are available
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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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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.
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Nova Scotia & Prince Edward Island Map
• ITMB
2008 •
MAP
This provincial map of Nova Scotia at a scale of 1:400,000 includes Prince Edward Island and adjacent New Brunswick. With city and regional plans and index on the reverse. Two Sides. 27x39 inches.
(CND45, $9.95) |
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Also Recommended
Atlantic Canada Map
• CCC Maps
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A double-sided map of the Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland at a scale of 1:800,000.
(CND50, $5.95)
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Bradt Nova Scotia
• David Orkin
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive guide in the growing series by Bradt, noteworthy for its focus on culture, nature and responsible travel, with plenty of practical travel details.
(CND340, $21.99)
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Moon Handbook Atlantic Canada
• Mark Morris
• GUIDEBOOK
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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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A Traveller's History of Canada
• Robert Bothwell
• HISTORY
• BEST SELLER
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A readable and admirably concise march through Canadian history from prehistory to today, including a timeline.
(CND82, $14.99)
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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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Nova Scotia
• Tanya Lloyd Kyi
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A photographic overview of historic Louisbourg and Port Royale, Cape Breton, Halifax and the remote towns and people in the Canada Series.
(CND262, $17.95)
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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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Anne of Green Gables
• Lucy Maud Montgomery
• LITERATURE
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This Norton critical edition of the immensely popular 1908 novel includes excerpts from Montgomery's journals, letters and juvenilia, as well as commentary from Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron and Louisa May Alcott.
(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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Evangeline
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• LITERATURE
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Longfellow's epic poem of Evangeline and Gabriel, two lovers separated as a result of the 1755 Acadian deportation from Nova Scotia.
(CND46, $7.99)
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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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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, commerce and history, throwing light on Viking voyages, the Hanseatic League, and both Scnadinavian and Canadian economic history.
(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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