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Michelin Green Guide Quebec

Michelin Green Guide Quebec

by Michelin Travel Publications

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES

A thorough introduction to the region in the classic Michelin style, featuring brief descriptions of all the major attractions. (CND66, $21.99)

Fodor's Montreal's 25 Best

Fodor's Montreal's 25 Best

by Fodor's

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 128 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. (CND41, $11.99)

Quebec Province Map

Quebec Province Map

by Borch Maps

  • MAP

A map of the province (1:800,000) with insets of Old Montreal, Quebec city and the region. (CND26, $4.95)

 

Montreal Map


by Borch Maps

  • 2006
  • MAP

A folded, laminated map of the city center of Montreal. (CND104, $8.95)

Quebec Road Atlas


by Map Art Maps

  • 2001
  • MAP

A detailed atlas of the province of Quebec with city and regional maps. (CND164, $24.95)

Knopf Guide Quebec

Knopf Guide Quebec


by Knopf Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2005
  • FLEXI-BOUND
  • 408 PAGES

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 & Quebec City Encounter

Lonely Planet Montreal & Quebec City Encounter


by Lonely Planet

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 208 PAGES

With a section of not-to-missed highlights and a calendar of annual events, this lively pocket guide organized by neighborhood includes suggested side trips, along what to see and where to shop, eat, drink and play. With a double-sided pullout map. (CND345, $14.99)

Lonely Planet Montreal and Quebec City

Lonely Planet Montreal and Quebec City


by Jeremy Gray

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

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, $18.99)

Quebec City, Ulysses Travel Guide

Quebec City, Ulysses Travel Guide


by Stephanie Marceau

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

This compact, illustrated guide features 10 recommended walking tours and practical travel for the city and surrounding regions. (CND169, $24.95)

A Traveller's History of Canada

A Traveller's History of Canada


by Robert Bothwell

  • HISTORY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 220 PAGES

A readable and admirably concise march through Canadian history from prehistory to today, including a timeline. (CND82, $14.95)

How to Be a Canadian, Even If You Already Are One

How to Be a Canadian, Even If You Already Are One


by Ian Ferguson | Will Ferguson

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 275 PAGES

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)

Montcalm and Wolfe, The French and Indian War

Montcalm and Wolfe, The French and Indian War


by Francis Parkman | Caleb Carr | John Keegan

  • HISTORY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 640 PAGES

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

Montreal Then and Now


by Alan Hustak

  • HISTORY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 144 PAGES

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, $19.95)

Quebec, 1759, The Siege and the Battle


by C. P. Stacey

  • HISTORY
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 293 PAGES

Originally published in 1959, this definitive account of the fall of Quebec, a key battle in British dominance in North America, is revised by Donald Graves for this new edition. (CND295, $29.95)

Why I Hate Canadians

Why I Hate Canadians


by Will Ferguson

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 305 PAGES

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)

Wolfe & Montcalm: Their Lives, Their Times, and the Fate of a Continent

Wolfe & Montcalm: Their Lives, Their Times, and the Fate of a Continent


by Joy Carroll

  • HISTORY
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 296 PAGES

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

Arundel


by Kenneth Roberts | N. C. Wyeth

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 496 PAGES

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

No Laughing Matter


by Peter Guttridge

  • MYSTERY
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 277 PAGES

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

Shadows on the Rock


by Willa Cather

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 229 PAGES

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)

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz


by Mordecai Richler

  • LITERATURE
  • 1989
  • PAPER
  • 328 PAGES

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, $10.95)

Varieties of Exile

Varieties of Exile


by Mavis Gallant | Russell Banks

  • LITERATURE
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 400 PAGES

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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