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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