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Essential Books These 3 items are available for $58, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXCND28)
 
Insight Guide Canada  •  Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER
A volume in the award-winning Insight series, this guide is noted for its wonderful photography, superb production and informative short essays. It is a thoroughly illustrated, comprehensive guide to the history and culture of Canada. (CND42, $23.95)
  Insight Guide Canada
The Illustrated History of Canada  •  Craig Brown
HISTORY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 626 PAGES
A good, nicely illustrated history of Canada, featuring contributions by six Canadian historians, along with hundreds of engravings, maps, photographs and illustrations. It's a well-edited, lively overview of the nation from initial European contact to the post-war years. Desmond Morton contributed the chapter covering 1945-2000. Fifth edition (CND19, $32.95)
  The Illustrated History of Canada
Canada Map  •  Map Art Maps
MAP
A folded, color map of all Canada at a scale of 1:4,500,000. It's better than most, and at an unbeatable price. (CND15, $4.95)
  Canada Map



Also Recommended
Lonely Planet Canada  •  Mark Lightbody  •  Thomas Huhti  •  Ryan Ver Berkmoes   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive, practical guide to Canada. (CND54, $26.99)
 
 
The Canadian Rockies Superguide  •  Graeme Pole   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This essential handbook for travelers combines color photographs, excellent maps and solid information on places and attractions throughout the Canadian Rockies. It also includes a section on the geological formation of the Rockies and fascinating sidebars on wildlife and historical figures. (CND28, $29.95)
 
 
Trans-Canada Rail Guide  •  Melissa Graham   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact, kilometer-by-kilometer guide to the 4,000-mile rail journey across North America from Halifax to Vancouver. (CND04, $19.95)
 
 
A Traveller's History of Canada  •  Robert Bothwell   • HISTORY  •  A readable and admirably concise march through Canadian history from prehistory to today, including a timeline. (CND82, $14.95)
 
 
Canada, A People's History Volume 1  •  Don Gillmor   • HISTORY  •  A richly illustrated history of Canada, the first of two volumes, from the early days to the 1870s. (CND218, $23.95)
 
 
Canada, A People's History Volume 2  •  Don Gillmor   • HISTORY  •  A richly illustrated popular history of the events and personalities of Canada in the 20th Century, the second of two volumes. (CND219, $23.95)
 
 
People of the Deer  •  Farley Mowat   • HISTORY  •  A classic account of the people of Canada's barren grounds. The book both launched Farley Mowat's career and brought attention to the plight of a fast disappearing people. (CAN01, $14.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
Escape, In Search of the Natural Soul of Canada  •  Roy MacGregor   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  McGregor weaves anecdote, memoir, geography and history in these vivid essays on the idea of wilderness in Canada, drawing in his own family and their house by the lake in the woods of Ontario. (CND222, $16.95)
 
 
Great Heart, The History of a Labrador Adventure  •  John Rugge  •  James West Davidson   • EXPLORATION  •  A riveting account of three turn-of-the-century expeditions across the Ungava-Labrador Peninsula. (CND63, $17.00)
 
 
Theatre of Fish, Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador  •  John Gimlette   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A rollicking account of Gimlette's adventures in Newfoundland and Labrador on the trail of a great-great grandfather. It's a witty tale, soaked in fishy history, myth, lore and incident. (CND234, $15.00)
 
 
Burden of Desire  •  Robert MacNeil   • LITERATURE  •  An intricate, suspenseful novel of love and war set against the backdrop of the 1917 explosion that destroyed the north end of Halifax. Written by the noted newsman Robert MacNeil. (CND23, $16.00)
 
 
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, $13.95)
 
 
The Bird Artist  •  Howard Norman   • LITERATURE  •  Memorably set in a remote coastal village in 1911, this vivid book is the tale of an odd local man who murdered the lighthouse keeper. It's as much about human character and motivation as it is about Newfoundland. (NFL06, $15.00)
 
 
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)
 
 
Moose  •  Valerius Geist  •  Michael H. Francis   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A natural history and photographic portrait of the moose. (BST56, $21.95)
 
 
The Canadian Landscape  •  J.A. Kraulis   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A portfolio of 150 striking color photographs from Atlantic Canada to Vancouver, with accompanying text in English and French. (CND220, $24.95)
 
 
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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