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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 Toronto. Order an essential package, and we'll ship any additional items for free.
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Rough Guide Toronto
Phil Lee Helen Lovekin
GUIDEBOOK 2006 PAPER 240 PAGES
A no-nonsense, pocket guide to the city with descriptions of attractions and a good overview of history and culture. The outstanding British Rough Guide series provides an insider's sense of local life. With color maps.
(CND136, $16.99)
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)
Toronto Map
Borch Maps
2006 MAP
A colorful, laminated folded map of the city center of Toronto, at a scale of 1:17,500.
(CND88, $7.95)
Ontario Map
Map Art Maps
A folded travel map of Ontario at a scale of 1:750,000.
(CND226, $4.95)
Fodor's Toronto's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
A shirt-pocket guide to Toronto, this slim book includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on the best restaurants, shops and sights to see.
(GLK07, $11.95)
Fodor's Toronto, With Niagara Falls & the Niagara Wine Region
Fodor's Travel Publications
GUIDEBOOK
This practicle guide in the popular series is packed with insider information in an easy-to-use format.
(CND307, $16.95)
Toronto Colourguide
Nicholas Dinka
GUIDEBOOK
The revised and updated fifth edition of this compact and colorful illustrated guide by local experts. With varied cultural information, dining advice and sections for special interests.
(CND245, $16.95)
Toronto's Many Faces
Tony Ruprecht
GUIDEBOOK
A visitors' guide to Toronto, with a welcome focus on the city's diverse ethnic neighborhoods.
(CND140, $14.95)
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)
Toronto Street Names, An Illustrated Guide to Their Origins
Leonard Wise
Allan Gould
HISTORY
The authors trace the origins of 350 street names, uncovering much Toronto history en route, an unusual approach to civic history, illustrated with archival photographs.
(CND143, $24.95)
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)
Brave Films, Wild Nights: 25 Years of Festival Fever
Brain D. Johnson
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A history of the Toronto Film Festival.
(FLM07, $24.95)
The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, An Introduction
Anne Newlands
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A slim, accessible introduction to the art and times of the famous Canadian landscape painters, eight men who revolutionized Canadian approaches to art and wilderness in the early 20th century.
(CND142, $14.95)
No Great Mischief
Alistair MacLeod
LITERATURE
A novel covering 200 years in the history of a family of Scottish immigrants living in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. MacLeod creates a modern saga of the immigrant experience, familial bonds and life in coastal Canada.
(CND48, $14.95)
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
LITERATURE
Winner of the Booker Prize in 2000, this hauntingly beautiful novel interweaves two disparate strands: one, a murder mystery set in Toronto at the close of WWII; the other, the text of the murdered woman's science fiction novel, which may hold a clue to her death.
(CND139, $14.95)
The Deptford Trilogy
Robertson Davies
LITERATURE
An omnibus edition of Fifth Business (1970), The Manticore (1972) and World of Wonders (1975). Noteworthy for their faultless prose, memorable characters and trenchant humor, these novels follow the fate of three youths in Ontario.
(CND223, $21.00)
Niagara Falls: An Intimate Portrait
John Grant
Ray Jones
NATURAL HISTORY
An illustrated overview of Niagara Falls' allure, attractions, history and nature, published in conjunction with a television series.
(CND238, $29.95)
Ontario Wildlife
James Kavanagh
FIELD GUIDE
A fold-up, laminated card featuring color drawings and short descriptions of commonly encountered wildlife in Ontario.
(CND284, $5.95)
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