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Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw, Travels in Search of Canada
• Will Ferguson
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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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 Big Year, A Tale Of Man, Nature, And Fowl Obsession
• Mark Obmascik
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Obmascik, himself an over-the-edge birder, recounts with glee and page-turning detail the race to see the most birds in North America in a year. It's an utterly compelling account of a three-way race (roofing contractor, tycoon, software nerd), likely never again to be equaled.
(BRD29, $14.00)
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The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife
• Christopher W. Leahy
• Gordon Morrison
• NATURAL HISTORY
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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: A People's History, Volume 1
• Don Gillmor
• Pierre Turgeon
• HISTORY
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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
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An illustrated history of Canada from a distinctly Canadian perspective.
(CND161, $60.00)
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Eyewitness Top Ten Toronto
• DK Publishing
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions in Toronto.
(CND212, $12.00)
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Fifth Business
• Robertson Davies
• LITERATURE
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Robertson Davies' first -- and possibly best -- novel, set in rural Ontario and Toronto. It's laugh-out-loud funny, filled with memorable characters and dazzling prose.
(USW42, $14.00)
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Frommer's Ottawa
• James Hale
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical travel guide to Canada's capital city featuring excellent annotated listings of what to do and where to eat and sleep. With maps, color photos and suggested excursions.
(CND225, $18.99)
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How To Be A Bad Birdwatcher
• Simon Barnes
• NATURAL HISTORY
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According to Simon Barnes, the only good birdwatcher is a "bad" birdwatcher. A funny and refreshingly straight-talking guide to birdwatching from a London Times sportswriter.
(BRD25, $17.95)
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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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Identities in North America, The Search for Community
• Robert Earle
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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David Crombie (the former mayor of Toronto) writes on Canadian cities, Mark Pachter takes on American identity, and several politicians debate the Quebec question. It is a stimulating, wonderfully uneven book.
(CND14, $24.95)
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In the Skin of a Lion
• Michael Ondaatje
• LITERATURE
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This richly lyrical, poetic novel by Michael Ondaatje is set in 1920's Toronto and rural Ontario. Its protagonist is a tough woodsman who comes to the rough-and-tumble city.
(CND13, $13.00)
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Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power and Lies
• Ginger Strand
• HISTORY
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A witty, well-researched tale of the transformation of a natural wonder into an engineering feat, spectacle and monument.
(CND302, $25.00)
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Kensington
• Jean Cochrane
• Vincenzo Pietropaolo
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A pictorial portrait of Toronto's Kensington Market, past and present, featuring 120 black-and-white photographs. No neighborhood is more emblematic of polyglot Toronto than Kensington, where Indians, Italians, Afro-Carribeans, Chinese and Anglo-Saxons eat, sleep and haggle side-by-side.
(CND144, $29.95)
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Kingbird Highway, The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand
• Kenn Kaufman
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Kaufman's absorbing account of coming-of-age as a Wichita teenager on the road in 1973 with a summer's pay in his pocket and the goal of seeing as many birds as he could in a year.
(BRD27, $14.00)
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The Last Spike, The Great Railway, 1881-1885
• Pierre Berton
• HISTORY
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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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Mammals of North America
• Roland W. Kays
• Don E. Wilson
• FIELD GUIDE
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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
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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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Niagara Falls (Images of America)
• Daniel Dumych
• HISTORY
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A photohistory of the town that grew up around the falls, drawn from the archives of the Niagara Library.
(CND240, $19.99)
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Northeast US Southeast Canada Map
• Marshall Penn-York Maps
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A colorful map of the Great Lakes.
(GLK08, $3.95)
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Ottawa: the Unknown City
• Rob McLennan
• GUIDEBOOK
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A quirky and practical guide to the history and attractions of the Canadian capital.
(CND287, $22.95)
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Return to Wild America, A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
• Scott Weidensaul
• NATURAL HISTORY
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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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Stolen Continents, 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas
• Ronald Wright
• HISTORY
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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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Time Out Toronto
• Lesle McCave
• GUIDEBOOK
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An up-to-date guide on what to do and where to go by the people who publish Time Out Magazine.
(CND237, $19.95)
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To See Every Bird On Earth: A Father, A Son, And A Lifelong Obsession
• Dan Koeppel
• NATURAL HISTORY
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In this enormously appealing memoir of a life devoted to birds. Koeppel chronicles his father's growing obsession and accomplishment as an elite birdwatcher, one of a handful of people who have tallied 7,000 species.
(BRD28, $14.00)
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The Verb to Bird, Sightings of an Avid Birder
• Peter Cashwell
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A memoir of the birding life, its pleasures, obsessions and pitfalls. Based in the Carolinas (where he teaches English), Cashwell recounts in these essays the birds he's encountered, the why and wherefores of the birding life and some very entertaining anecdotes.
(BRD26, $14.95)
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Where Toronto Cityguide
• Where Magazine
• GUIDEBOOK
• COMING IN SEPTEMBER
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A sturdy pocket guide to top city sights, helpfully keyed to overview maps and featuring a detailed downtown PopOut map.
(CND285, $9.95)
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