Posts Tagged ‘canadian’
Top 60 Canoe Routes of Ontario
A new edition of the best-selling guide, expanded with 10 more routes over 48 more pages. Ontario is blessed with some of the most scenic and enjoyable lakes and rivers in the world — it truly is a paddler’s paradise. Like the first edition of this book, this updated and expanded second edition is destined…
Read MoreNature Hikes Near-Toronto Trails and Adventures
A great guide to visiting 39 Conservation Areas in the Toronto region with new full-color maps. Toronto residents and visitors can find it difficult to get far enough away from city noise and hustle to experience the restorative quiet of a natural setting. But that’s only if you don’t know where to go. Nature Hikes:…
Read MoreA Little History of Canada
Lively, compact, and highly readable, this bestselling history offers a fascinating overview of the Canadian landscape and its people. From the earliest human inhabitants of North America who learned to thrive in challenging physical environments to the French and British invaders whoestablished colonies across a vast continent to the influential individuals who have shaped Canada’s…
Read MoreThe Oxford Book of Canadian Verse
A century ago Oxford University Press published the first-ever anthology of Canadian poetry-a beautiful blue edition with gilt edges. “There are selections of verse in this volume which now appear for the first time in the pages of any Canadian anthology,” proudly writes volume editor and poet Wilfred Campbell, the first anthologist to wrestle with…
Read MoreA Rule Against Murder (Gamache #4) Reprint
Previously published as The Murder Stone ‘Impossible to put down’ Globe and Mail It’s the height of summer, and the wealthy Finney family have gathered at the Manoir Bellechasse to pay tribute to their late father. But as the temperature rises, old secrets and bitter rivalries begin to surface. When the heat wave boils over…
Read MoreStill Life (Gamache 1) Reprint
The CWA Dagger-winning first novel from New York Times bestseller Louise Penny ‘Chief Superintendent Armand Gamache of the Quebec police is one of the most interesting detectives in crime fiction’ The Times The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete…
Read MoreA Place, a Warrior, a Boy and the Atlantic Charter
In August of 1941, American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Englands Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet at Ship Harbour, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. World War II is by now raging, so the German military is desperate to learn the reason for their meeting and the purpose of a new naval base being constructed. A German U-boat…
Read MoreAs the Crow Flies
Madeleine learns about the ambiguity of human morality when a murder occurs on the air force base where she lives as a child and the lessons are reinforced years later when the search for the killer is renewed.
Read MoreIn the Footsteps of the Group of Seven
Now available in a paper-bound edition Nearly a century ago, a group of artists travelled into northern Ontario and farther afield to capture the raw, terrible beauty that lay just beyond the outskirts of Canada’s cities and towns. Armed with sketchbooks, brushes, and paint boxes, they set off into the heart of the wilderness with…
Read MoreBeing Prime Minister
Behind the politics, discover the lives of Canada’s leaders. “What a life it is to be prime minister!” — John Diefenbaker Canada has had twenty-three prime ministers, all with views and policies that have differed as widely as the ages in which they lived. But what were they like as people? Being Prime Minister takes…
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