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Best Weekend Getaways from Vancouver
Greystone Books 2009; US$ 18.95In this detailed guide, Jack Christie shares his favorite two- and three-day trips in the Vancouver area. It covers everything from rugged outdoor activities in the Gulf Islands to bicycle tours in Victoria, wine tours in the Okanagan, and backroad exploring in Whistler, ensuring that visitors can find as much (or as little) adventure as they like.... more...
How to Move to Canada
St. Martin's Press 2007; US$ 15.99An easy-to-use, step-by-step guide to calling Canada home More and more Americans are thinking of moving to Canada for work, study, peace of mind---even retirement---and whatever their motivations, they will have to navigate the Canadian immigration and naturalization processes. So whether you're thinking about moving or already have... more...
Timbit Nation
Random House of Canada 2010; US$ 22.95After spending years travelling through some of the poorest nations of the world, seeking out the people?s story, award-winning journalist and bestselling author John Stackhouse turns his keen eye toward his own country. Most people who travel across Canada begin their journey at either end of an impressively long strand of national highway. But Stackhouse,... more...
Mad Dogs And An Englishwoman
Random House Group Ltd 2009; US$ 10.67In the dead of winter, Polly Evans ventures to the remote Yukon Territory in Canada's far northwest, where temperatures plunge to minus forty and the sun rises for just a few hours each day. Her mission: to learn to drive sled dogs. But when she arrives, she finds there's more to this unspoilt wilderness than deathly cold. In a pristine... more...
Still at the Cottage
McClelland & Stewart 2011; US$ 18.95In 1989, Charles Gordon wrote a book about the joys of life at the cottage called, well, At the Cottage . It was a huge success, selling thousands of copies every year since then. A copy sits, dog-eared and smeared with sunscreen, in every cottage worthy of the name, right beside the bird book with the missing pages. Now, showing the same creative... more...
This Is My Country, What's Yours?
McClelland & Stewart 2011; US$ 24.99Winner of the 2007 B.C. Award for Canadian Non-fiction A Globe and Mail Best 100 Book (2006) National Post Best Books (2006) A bold cultural portrait of contemporary Canada through the work of its most celebrated novelists, short story writers, and storytellers. Stories are the surest way to know a place, and at a time when the fabric of... more...
Theatre Of Fish
Random House 2011; US$ 12.00John Gimlette's travels through this harsh and awesome landscape, the eastern extreme of the Americas, broadly mirrors that of Dr Eliot Curwen, his great-grandfather, who spent a summer there as a doctor in 1893, and who was witness to some of the most beautiful ice and cruelest poverty in the British Empire. Using Curwen's extraordinarily frank journal,... more...
Extreme Frontiers
Little, Brown Book Group 2012; US$ 20.83Back on his bike for a brand-new adventure, Charley Boorman explores the world's second largest country home to some of the most stunning and challenging terrain known to man. Canada is a country of extremes, and Charley knows all about pushing things to the limit. He goes dirt biking in New Brunswick; dives through old shipwrecks in the freezing... more...
Extreme Frontiers
Little, Brown Book Group 2012; Not AvailableBack on his bike for a brand-new adventure, Charley Boorman explores the world's second largest country home to some of the most stunning and challenging terrain known to man. Canada is a country of extremes, and Charley knows all about pushing things to the limit. He goes dirt biking in New Brunswick; dives through old shipwrecks in the freezing... more...
The Rancher Takes a Wife
McClelland & Stewart 2012; US$ 13.95Told with wit and wisdom, this is Hobson's tale of bringing his city-bred interior-decorator bride to the harsh life of the British Columbia Interior. more...









