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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $82, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXCND349)		  
A Traveller's History of Canada  •  Robert Bothwell
HISTORY •  2010 •  PAPER  • 220 PAGES • BEST SELLER
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, $14.99)		   A Traveller's History of Canada
Knopf Guide Quebec  •  Knopf Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2005 •  FLEXI-BOUND  • 408 PAGES
Portable and compact, this resourceful guide contains over 1,000 color photographs and illustrations, as well as detailed maps, recommendations and overviews of Quebec history and culture. (CND235, $27.50)		   Knopf Guide Quebec
Frommer's Toronto Day by Day  •  Jason Mcbride
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 182 PAGES
A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, featuring remarkably good suggestions for everything from food, hotels and neighborhoods to shopping. With a separate foldout map. (CND368, $13.99)		  
Niagara, A History of the Falls  •  Pierre Berton
HISTORY •  2009 •  PAPER  • 480 PAGES
Back in print! Entertaining, meticulously researched and surprising in its details (who knew it was the site of the first railway suspension bridge and the inspiration for alternating current?), Pierre Berton's engrossing social history of Niagara dives into this "noble cataract" as a touchstone for the aspirations of engineers, businessmen, dare-devils and adventurers over the last 100 years. (GLK02, $24.95)		   Niagara, A History of the Falls
Northeastern USA, Eastern Canada Map  •  Michelin
MAP
This colorful, double-sided, folded map of Eastern Canada and the United States, at a scale of 1:2,400,000, covers all the Great Lakes, south to Washington and Kansas city and north to Winnipeg and New Brunswick. It does not, however, include Newfoundland and Labrador. Two Sides. 39x27 inches. (CND182, $6.95)		   Northeastern USA, Eastern Canada Map



Also Recommended

Fodor's Montreal's 25 Best  •  Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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)
 		  
Fodor's Toronto, With Niagara Falls & the Niagara Wine Region  •  Fodor's Travel Publications   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This practical guide in the popular series is packed with insider information in an easy-to-use format. (CND307, $18.99)
 		  
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, $18.95)
 		  
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, $19.95)
 		  
Niagara Falls (Images of America)  •  Daniel Dumych   • HISTORY  •  A photohistory of the town that grew up around the falls, drawn from the archives of the Niagara Library. (CND240, $21.99)
 		  
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, $17.00)
 		  
Wolfe at Quebec, The Man Who Won the French and Indian War  •  Christopher Hibbert   • HISTORY  •  Hibbert brings the campaigns, life at Louisborg and dramatic capture of Quebec in 1759 to life in this tale of the neurotic, complex British general. (CND67, $15.95)
 		  
The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson  •  David P. Silcox   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  The much-loved painters of The Group of Seven helped define Canadian identity, creating iconic images of early 20th-century Canada. This glorious, lovingly produced book show-cases nearly 400 paintings, including influential landscapes, lesser-known portraits, gardens and city scenes, all organized geographically. (CND221, $49.95)
 		  
In the Skin of a Lion  •  Michael Ondaatje   • LITERATURE  •  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, $15.00)
 		  
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, $14.00)
 		  
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, $14.00)
 		  
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, $10.95)
 		  
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, $15.00)
 		  
Ontario Wildlife  •  James Kavanagh   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A fold-up, laminated card featuring color drawings and short descriptions of commonly encountered wildlife in Ontario. (CND284, $8.95)
 		  
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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