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Canadian Discovery by Rail
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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These 4 items are available
for $63, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXCND146) |
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Trans-Canada Rail Guide
• Melissa Graham
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
A compact, kilometer-by-kilometer guide to the 4,000-mile rail journey across North America from Halifax to Vancouver (including spur lines to Churchill and Prince Rubert). With 30 maps of cities and town en route, brief descriptions of major attractions and much information on the railroad itself. 4th edition.
(CND04, $22.95) |
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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) |
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How to Be a Canadian, Even If You Already Are One
• Ian Ferguson
• Will Ferguson
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2008 •
PAPER
• 275 PAGES
A tongue-in-cheek portrait of Canadian people and society, written by two native sons. It's a guidebook for newcomers to Canada. The Fergusons have a good time poking fun at their compatriots, while at the same time providing insights into the cultural landscape. Will Ferguson is the author of Why I Hate Canadians.
(CND208, $18.95) |
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Canada Map
• ITMB
2010 •
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.
(CND15, $9.95) |
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Also Recommended
Insight Guide Canada
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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An illustrated guide to Canada with essays on history, culture and nature.
(CND42, $24.95)
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Empire of the Bay, The Company of Adventurers That Seized a Continent
• Peter C. Newman
• HISTORY
• COMING IN
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A big, lively history of Hudson's Bay Company, the enormous fur trading organization that controlled and explored much of the Canadian wilderness in the 18th and 19th centuries.
(CND78, $16.00)
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The Last Spike, The Great Railway, 1881-1885
• Pierre Berton
• HISTORY
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Part two of Berton's classic account.
(CND179, $24.95)
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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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Men for the Mountains
• Sid Marty
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• COMING IN
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A classic by a native Albertan and park warden in the Canadian Rockies, this memoir captures the immense landscapes of Alberta and the rugged way of life in the West.
(CND11, $18.95)
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In the Skin of a Lion
• Michael Ondaatje
• LITERATURE
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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)
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The Blind Assassin
• Margaret Atwood
• LITERATURE
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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)
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Songs of the North
• Sigurd Olson
• NATURAL HISTORY
• COMING IN
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A collection of 20 lyrical essays on the nature of the Saskatchewan wilderness of northern Minnesota and Ontario, selected and introduced by Howard Frank Mosher.
(CND09, $17.00)
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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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Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains
• James Halfpenny
• Todd Telander
• FIELD GUIDE
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An essential pocket guide to 70 species of mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds, with line drawings, range map and description.
(USW118, $9.95)
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