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We feature a handpicked selection of travel guides, maps, literature, books on art, nature and culture, all designed to help you get more out of your travels to Montreal. Order an essential package, and we'll ship any additional items for free.
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Michelin Green Guide Quebec
Michelin Travel Publications
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 456 PAGES
A thorough introduction to the region in the classic Michelin style, featuring brief descriptions of all the major attractions. We include it for its broad coverage, and especially for its excellent local maps.
(CND66, $21.95)
Fodor's Montreal's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 96 PAGES
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 -- all in a slipcover.
(CND41, $11.95)
A Traveller's History of Canada
Robert Bothwell
HISTORY 2001 PAPER 320 PAGES
An admirably concise march through Canadian history by Robert Bothwell, who has also written "Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories." Compact, easy-to-read and covering from prehistoric times to today, it's a useful introduction to the country, designed specifically for travelers.
(CND82, $14.95)
Quebec Province Map
Map Art Maps
MAP
A map of the Canadian province of Quebec at a scale of 1:800,000.
(CND26, $4.95)
Montreal Map
Borch Maps
A folded, laminated map of the city center of Montreal.
(CND104, $7.95)
Quebec City Map
Insight Maps
A laminated, folded map of the center of Quebec City.
(CND170, $4.95)
Quebec Road Atlas
Map Art Maps
A detailed atlas of the province of Quebec with city and regional maps.
(CND164, $19.95)
Knopf Guide Quebec
Knopf Guides
GUIDEBOOK
This compact, comprehensive guide includes an overview of the history, culture and attractions of the province, with an abundance of color illustrations and maps.
(CND235, $27.50)
Lonely Planet Montreal and Quebec City
Jeremy Gray
GUIDEBOOK
In its hallmark style, this practical guide to Montreal by Lonely Planet features maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and much nuts-and-bolts information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing.
(CND105, $16.99)
Moon Handbook Montreal and Quebec City
Jennifer Edwards
GUIDEBOOK
A practical, in-depth guide in the popular series.
(CND270, $17.95)
Zagat Montreal Restaurants, Plus Nightlife, Attractions and Hotels
Zagat Survey
GUIDEBOOK
A slim guide to restaurants, clubs, bars, and hotels, in the always-reliable, reader-rated Zagat series.
(CND269, $5.95)
Montcalm and Wolfe, The French and Indian War
Francis Parkman
Caleb Carr
John Keegan
HISTORY
This volume, a reprint of the original 1884 edition by the great Francis Parkman, is an extensively researched account of the French and Indian War and of the great generals Montcalm and Wolfe.
(CND16, $24.95)
Montreal Then and Now
Alan Hustak
HISTORY
This illustrated chronicle of Montreal pairs archival photographs alongside modern ones, their contrast demonstrating the city's change. Each pair is accompanied by a brief, historical description.
(CND249, $18.95)
Quebec, 1759, The Siege and the Battle
C. P. Stacey
HISTORY
The definitive account of the battle for Quebec and the events that preceded it by the military historian Charles P. Stacey.
(CND295, $29.95)
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, $19.95)
Wolfe & Montcalm: Their Lives, Their Times, and the Fate of a Continent
Joy Carroll
HISTORY
A compelling, highly readable account of a pivotal moment in Canadian history. At its center is the battle at the Plains of Abraham, which left both generals mortally wounded.
(CND271, $19.95)
Arundel
Kenneth Roberts
N. C. Wyeth
LITERATURE
The grand historical novel of Colonel Benedict Arnold's doomed march on Quebec in 1775, told through the eyes of a soldier in the Continental Army. Rich in historical detail.
(CND43, $18.95)
No Laughing Matter
Peter Guttridge
MYSTERY
In this first Nick Madrid book, a naked woman's mysterious fall from atop a Montreal hotel leads Madrid to the streets of Edinburgh and the secrets of Hollywood.
(CND256, $13.00)
Shadows on the Rock
Willa Cather
LITERATURE
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, $13.95)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Mordecai Richler
LITERATURE
The book that established Richler as a novelist, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz unfurls amid the bumptious, working-class splendor of Montreal's Plateau neighborhood, once solidly Jewish and more recently home to the city's music scene.
(CND263, $9.95)
The Tin Flute
Gabrielle Roy
Philip Stratford
LITERATURE
Originally published in 1945, this classic of Canadian literature is set in the Montreal slum of St. Henri during World War II. Roy's story focuses on one family's search for love amidst poverty and urban decay.
(CND103, $10.95)
Varieties of Exile
Mavis Gallant
Russell Banks
LITERATURE
Wonderful stories set mostly in Gallant's native Montreal, a city starkly divided between working-class French Catholics and genteel English Protestants.
(CND267, $14.95)
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