Most of the following books
should be readily available in
the UK, US or Canada. We have
given publishers for each
title in the form UK/US
publisher, unless the book is
published in one country only;
o/p means out of print. Note
that virtually all the listed
books published in the US will
be stocked by major Canadian
bookshops; we've indicated
those books published only in
Canada.
Travel
Hugh Brody Maps and Dreams
(Faber/Waveland; both o/p).
Brilliantly written account of
the lives and lands of the
Beaver natives of northwest
Canada. For further acute
insights into the ways of the
far north see also the same
author's ...
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Culture and society
John Bently-Mays Emerald City:
Toronto Visited (Viking, o/p).
Thoughtful critical essays
about Toronto, its
architecture and its
inhabitants. David Cruise
& Alison Griffiths The
Great Adventure: How the
Mounties conquered...
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Biography
Anahareo Grey Owl and I: a New
Autobiography (Davies,
Canada). The story of Grey
Owl's Iroquois wife, their
fight to save the beaver from
extinction and her shock at
discovering that her husband
was in fact an Englishman.
Good insights into the...
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History
Fred Anderson Crucible of War:
The Seven Years' War and the
Fate of the British Empire in
British North America,
1754-1766 (Faber & Faber).
Lucid and extraordinarily
well-researched account of
this crucial period in the
development of North...
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Natural history
Richard Chandler The Macmillan
Field Guide to North Atlantic
Shorebirds (Macmillan, UK,
o/p). Well-illustrated and
comprehensive handbook. The
Pocket Guide Series (Dragon's
World, UK). Clearly laid-out
and well-illustrated,...
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Fiction
Margaret Atwood Surfacing
(Virago/Fawcett). Canada's
most eminent novelist is not
always easy reading, but her
analysis, particularly of
women and society, is
invariably witty and
penetrating. In Surfacing
(Virago/Fawcett), the...
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Poetry
Elizabeth Bishop The Complete
Poems (Chatto & Windus/Farrar,
Straus & Giroux). Though
American by birth, Bishop
spent much of her youth in
Nova Scotia. Many of her early
poems feed off her Canadian
childhood and her fascination
with the...
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Specialist guides
Don Beers The Wonder of Yoho
(Rocky Mountain Books,
Canada). Good photos and solid
text extolling the delights of
Yoho National Park in the
Rockies. Darryl Bray Kluane
National Park Hiking Guide
(Travel Vision, Canada)....
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