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Essential Books These 3 items are available for $46, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXCND204)		  
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
A Traveller's History of Canada  •  Robert Bothwell
HISTORY •  2010 •  PAPER  • 220 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)		   A Traveller's History of Canada
Quebec Province Map  •  Borch Maps
MAP
A map of the province (1:800,000) with insets of Old Montreal, Quebec city and the region on the reverse. Two Sides. 27x40 inches. (CND26, $4.95)		   Quebec Province Map



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Eyewitness Top Ten Montreal & Quebec City  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions in Montreal and Quebec City. (CND205, $14.00)
 		  
Fodor's Montreal & Quebec City  •  Fodor's Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical, up-to-date guide in the popular series. (CND260, $18.99)
 		  
Michelin Green Guide Quebec  •  Michelin Travel Publications   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A thorough introduction to the region in the classic Michelin style, featuring brief descriptions of all the major attractions. (CND66, $21.99)
 		  
Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories  •  Robert Bothwell   • HISTORY  •  An in-depth look at Canada-Quebec relations through interviews with prominent Canadian figures. (CND69, $32.95)
 		  
Canadians, A Portrait of the Country and Its People  •  Roy MacGregor   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • COMING IN  •  A journalist and popular author, MacGregor takes the full measure of Canadian life in this irreverent, entertaining portrait of a people. (CND320, $18.00)
 		  
Great North, Celebrating Man, Animal, and Landscape at the Top of the World  •  Martin Dignard   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A dazzling portrait of the wildlife, landscapes and cultures of the circumpolar north, originally presented in IMAX theaters. At the heart of the film are the caribou herds of the Inuktitut of northern Quebec. 41 minutes. (ARC152, $19.99)
 		  
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)
 		  
Quebec, 1759, The Siege and the Battle  •  C. P. Stacey   • HISTORY  •  Originally published in 1959, this definitive account of the fall of Quebec, a key battle in British dominance in North America, is revised by Donald Graves for this new edition. (CND295, $29.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Hummocks, Journeys and Inquiries Among the Canadian Inuit  •  Jean Malaurie   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An account of the journeys of French anthropologist Malaurie among the Canadian Inuit during the early 1950s and 1960s (ARC235, $49.95)
 		  
Arundel  •  Kenneth Roberts  •  N. C. Wyeth   • LITERATURE  •  The grand historical novel of Colonel Benedict Arnold's doomed march on Quebec in 1775, told through the eyes of a soldier in the Continental Army. Rich in historical detail. (CND43, $18.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Varieties of Exile  •  Mavis Gallant  •  Russell Banks   • LITERATURE  •  Wonderful stories set mostly in Gallant's native Montreal, a city starkly divided between working-class French Catholics and genteel English Protestants. (CND267, $14.95)
 		  
Guide to the Offshore Wildlife of the Northern Atlantic  •  Michael H. Tove   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An oversize field guide to the seabirds, ocean mammals and turtles found off Atlantic shores north of the Tropic of Cancer featuring 39 excellent color plates and extensive descriptive information. (ATL11, $24.95)
 		  
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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