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Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw, Travels in Search of Canada
Will Ferguson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Ferguson (Why I Hate Canadians) dredges up odd characters and amusing icons of Canadian history on his erratic travels across Canada from the west coast, across prairies to Churchill and its famous polar bears, culminating with a visit to the Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows.
(CND236, $14.95) |
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The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife
Christopher W. Leahy
Gordon Morrison
NATURAL HISTORY
A handsome, fully illustrated survey of the birds of North America, organized A to Z, covering birds, bird biology, conservation and birdwatching.
(NAM21, $19.95) |
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Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories
Robert Bothwell
HISTORY
An in-depth look at Canada-Quebec relations through interviews with prominent Canadian figures.
(CND69, $32.95) |
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Canada: A People's History, Volume 1
Don Gillmor
Pierre Turgeon
HISTORY
An illustrated history of Canada from a distinctly Canadian perspective.
(CND160, $60.00) |
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Canada: A People's History, Volume 2
Don Gillmor
Pierre Turgeon
HISTORY
An illustrated history of Canada from a distinctly Canadian perspective.
(CND161, $60.00) |
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City of Ice
John Farrow
LITERATURE
A page-turning crime thriller involving a Montreal police officer.
(CND65, $25.00) |
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Eastern Canada Map
Hildebrand
CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
A full-color map of Eastern Canada at a scale of 1:1,500,000, covering the entire St. Lawrence Seaway and the Atlantic coast.
(CAN03, $12.95) |
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Eyewitness Top Ten Montreal & Quebec City
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions in Montreal and Quebec City.
(CND205, $12.00) |
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Fodor's Montreal & Quebec City
Fodor's Guides
GUIDEBOOK
A practical, up-to-date guide in the popular series.
(CND260, $16.95) |
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Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City
Leslie Brokaw
GUIDEBOOK
COMING IN DECEMBER
A practical guide in the popular series, with plenty of practical information on where to go and stay.
(CND316, $17.99) |
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How to be a Canadian, Even If You Already are One
Ian Ferguson
Will Ferguson
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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, $19.95) |
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The Illustrated History of Canada
Craig Brown
HISTORY
A good, nicely illustrated history of Canada, featuring contributions by six Canadian historians, along with hundreds of engravings, maps, photographs and illustrations.
(CND19, $32.95) |
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Insight City Guide Montreal
Insight Guides
FIELD GUIDE
(CND317, $16.95) |
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Insight Guide Canada
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK
An illustrated guide to Canada with essays on history, culture and nature.
(CND42, $23.95) |
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Insight Pocket Guide Quebec Province
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK
A compact guide to Quebec, with 16 suggested itineraries, including Quebec City, Montreal and the Gaspe Peninsula. With color photographs and excellent local maps, including a separate pull-out map with insets of Montreal and Quebec City.
(CND38, $13.95) |
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Knopf Mapguide, Montreal
Knopf Guides
GUIDEBOOK
A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps.
(CND268, $9.95) |
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Know Your Ships 2007: Guide to Boats and Boatwatching on the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Seaway
Roger LeLievre
FIELD GUIDE
A field guide to the ships on the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes. The freighter fleets of all the shipping companies are listed, along with the vital statistics for each ship.
(GLK12, $16.95) |
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Lake Champlain, Key to Liberty
Arthur Cohn
Ralph Nading Hill
HISTORY
The history surrounding Lake Champlain, the gateway between Quebec and New York.
(USE145, $24.95) |
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The Last Spike, The Great Railway, 1881-1885
Pierre Berton
HISTORY
Part two in Berton's exhilarating narrative of the boldest project in Canadian history, the building of the transcontinental railroad.
(CND179, $24.95) |
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Lullabies for Little Criminals
Heather O'Neill
LITERATURE
O'Neill's tragicomedy of coming of age in Montreal in the 1980s was shorlisted for the Orange Prize.
(CND314, $13.95) |
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Mammals of North America
Roland W. Kays
Don E. Wilson
FIELD GUIDE
The most comprehensive guide to mammals found north of Mexico.
(NAM11, $19.95) |
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The National Dream, The Great Railway, 1871 to 1881
Pierre Berton
HISTORY
An exhilarating narrative of the boldest project in Canadian history, the building of the transcontinental railroad. The first of two parts, this book follows the railway from idea to the beginning of construction.
(CND178, $24.95) |
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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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North Country, A Personal Journey
Howard Frank Mosher
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Novelist Mosher captures the spirit of the north in this wonderfully wrought portrait of borderland places and personalities.
(CND02, $14.95) |
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Quebec Province Map
Cartotek Geo, Inc
A folded map of the entire province at a scale of 1:670,000.
(CND198, $4.95) |
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Quebec Province Map
Carotek Geo Maps
A map of the entire province at a scale of 1:670,000.
(CND199, $4.95) |
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Quebec, Ulysses Travel Guide
Ulysses Travel Guide
GUIDEBOOK
A comprehensive, up-to-date guide to Quebec Province, including a brief overview of history, culture and nature along with travel information.
(CND44, $27.95) |
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Return to Wild America, A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
Scott Weidensaul
NATURAL HISTORY
An eye-opening trek in the footsteps of conservation pioneers Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher, whose 1953 journey across America resulted in the classic Wild America.
(USA123, $15.00) |
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Rough Guide Montreal
John Shandy Watson
Arabella Bowen
GUIDEBOOK
An opinionated, thorough travel guide to the history, culture and attractions of Montreal.
(CND210, $17.99) |
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Sea of Slaughter, A Chronicle of the Destruction of Animal Life in the North Atlantic
Farley Mowat
NATURAL HISTORY
An examination of human exploitation of the marine resources of the North Atlantic, with sections on whaling, the Great Auk and cod.
(OCE07, $16.95) |
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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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Stolen Continents, 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas
Ronald Wright
HISTORY
A powerful history of imperialism and resistance in the Americas, with a focus on the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee and Iroquois. Wright draws on an impressive range of archival material in reconstructing this classic account.
(NAM20, $17.00) |
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Surfacing
Margaret Atwood
LITERATURE
One of Atwood's earliest novels, a suspenseful yarn where a young woman becomes entangled in affairs, mysteries and the haunting draw of nature as she searches for her missing father on an island off the coast of northern Quebec.
(CND224, $13.95) |
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The War That Made America, A Short History of the French and Indian War
Fred Anderson
HISTORY
Anderson (Crucible of War) illuminates relations between the Indians, French and British in 18th-century North America.
(USA157, $16.00) |
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Wolfe at Quebec, The Man Who Won the French and Indian War
Christopher Hibbert
HISTORY
A history of British General James Wolfe's last year of life. Hibbert traces the neurotic general's life through diaries, letters, ships' logs and firsthand accounts for this portrait of the man who defeated General Montcalm at Quebec.
(CND67, $15.95) |
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