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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/U5662. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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These 1 items are available
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Canada Map
• ITMB
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MAP
A folded, color map of all Canada at a scale of 1:6,00,000, this one-sided sheet shows physical relief, transportation routes, cities and towns from Iceland and Greenland west across Canada to Alaska and the Bering Sea. One in the National Atlas of Canada Reference Map Series. Two Sides. 28x40 inches.
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Also Recommended
Lonely Planet Canada
• Mark Lightbody
• Thomas Huhti
• Ryan Ver Berkmoes
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive, practical guide to all of Canada, redigned for this 11th edition.
(CND54, $26.99)
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Xenophobe's Guide to the Canadians
• Vaughn Roste
• GUIDEBOOK
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This irreverent pocket guide to cultural awareness is both insightful -- and entertaining.
(CND402, $7.95)
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A Little History of Canada
• H. V. Nelles
• HISTORY
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A whirlwind history of Canada, focusing on the enduring theme of transformation. Nells incorporates the latest research including: Canada-US relations post 9/11, immigration and global warming.
(CND398, $65.00)
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A Traveller's History of Canada
• Robert Bothwell
• HISTORY
• BEST SELLER
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A readable and admirably concise march through Canadian history from prehistory to today, including a timeline.
(CND82, $14.99)
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Canada, A People's History Volume 1
• Don Gillmor
• HISTORY
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A richly illustrated history of Canada, the first of two volumes, from the early days to the 1870s.
(CND218, $23.95)
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Canada, A People's History Volume 2
• Don Gillmor
• HISTORY
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A richly illustrated popular history of the events and personalities of Canada in the 20th Century, the second of two volumes.
(CND219, $23.95)
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Canadians, A Portrait of the Country and Its People
• Roy MacGregor
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• COMING IN
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A journalist and popular author, MacGregor takes the full measure of Canadian life in this irreverent, entertaining portrait of a people.
(CND320, $18.00)
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Champlain's Dream
• David Hackett Fischer
• HISTORY
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In this stunningly researched and engaging biography, Pulitzer-Prize Winner David Hackett Fischer weaves together the epic story of soldier and explorer Samuel de Champlain, a colonizer of North America who spent thirty years bringing his vision of a New France to life.
(CND404, $18.99)
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People of the Deer
• Farley Mowat
• HISTORY
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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)
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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, $16.95)
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The National Dream, The Great Railway, 1871 to 1881
• Pierre Berton
• HISTORY
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Part one of the great Berton's exhilarating account of the boldest project in Canadian history, the building of the transcontinental railroad, from idea to the start of construction.
(CND178, $24.95)
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The War That Made America, A Short History of the French and Indian War
• Fred Anderson
• HISTORY
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Anderson (Crucible of War) illuminates relations between the Indians, French and British in 18th-century North America.
(USA157, $17.00)
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Why I Hate Canadians
• Will Ferguson
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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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, $15.95)
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The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson
• David P. Silcox
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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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)
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Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw
• Will Ferguson
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• COMING IN
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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, $18.95)
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Reluctant Genius, Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention
• Charlotte Gray
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Gray unearths the man behind the myth in this masterful reassessment of Alexander Graham Bell's long and wide-reaching career. More than just the inventor of the telephone, Gray reveals that Bell was an innovator in many fields including sound, ultra sound, electric heating and composting toilets (to name a few).
(CND403, $14.95)
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Someone Knows My Name
• Lawrence Hill
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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In this harrowing tale of prejudice and hardship, Hill depicts the life of Aminata Diallo, a survivor of the Middle Passage and an abolitionist for the British Army during the Revolutionary War. This wrenching and captivating tale spans six decades and three continents, illuminating a paricularly painful period of African American history.
(CND405, $14.95)
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Theatre of Fish, Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador
• John Gimlette
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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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)
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Burden of Desire
• Robert MacNeil
• LITERATURE
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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, $25.95)
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Maria Chapdelaine, A Tale of French Canada
• Louis Hemon
• LITERATURE
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A young woman living with her family on the frontier in Quebec, Maria endures the hardships of isolation and climate and must choose between three suitors.
(CND406, $16.99)
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Selected Stories
• Alice Munro
• LITERATURE
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This collection of 28 short stories represents some of Munro's finest work. A powerful range of emotional, evocative tales set throughout the cities and rural towns of her native country.
(CND200, $16.95)
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Shadows on the Rock
• Willa Cather
• LITERATURE
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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)
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The Bird Artist
• Howard Norman
• LITERATURE
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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, $16.00)
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The Deptford Trilogy
• Robertson Davies
• LITERATURE
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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, $22.00)
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Moose
• Valerius Geist
• Michael H. Francis
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A natural history and photographic portrait of the moose.
(BST56, $21.95)
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The Canadian Landscape
• J.A. Kraulis
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A portfolio of 150 striking color photographs from Atlantic Canada to Vancouver, with accompanying text in English and French.
(CND220, $24.95)
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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
• Jon Dunn
• FIELD GUIDE
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From Alaska to Baja California, Nova Scotia and Florida, this guide is the veteran's choice for birding anywhere in the United States. Tabbed for easy access, the color range maps in this sixth edition are outstanding.
(FG09, $27.95)
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