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The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America
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New York: Viking, 2004
Hardcover. 419 pages. ENG

Condition: NEAR FINE / NEAR FINE
Very slight shelfwear.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
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New York: Harper, 2008
Hardcover. 316 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Remainder stripe to lower edge of text block.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-294) and index. xii, 316 p. : ill., maps.
Storming Babylon. Preston Manning and the Rise of the Reform Party
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Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1992. First edition
Hardcover. 216 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Wavell in the Middle East, 1939-1941:  A Study in Generalship
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Brassey's, 1993
Hardcover. 323 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / VERY GOOD
Dust jacket has a short closed tear to top edge of rear panel.
Northern Light: The Enduring Mystery of Tom Thomson and the Woman Who Loved Him
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Toronto: Random House Canada, 2010
Hardcover. 357 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Dust jacket has a tiny tear to top corner of spine.
Fix Bayonets!: A Royal Welch Fusilier at War 1796-1815, Being the Life and Times of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Pearson, CB, KCH 1781-1847
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Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 2006. First edition
Hardcover. 488 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Includes bibliographical references, index, notes. xxi, 488 p. : ill., facsim., maps, ports.
Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers
Justin Marozzi (text) Joanna Vestey (photos and interviews)
Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers
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London: Wigwam Press / Andre Deutsch, 2006. First edition
Hardcover. 211 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Light shelfwear. Otherwise like new.
Faces of Exploration is a stunning collection of interviews, photographs and biographies of fifty of the world's most famous and inspirational explorers.
Riel: A Life of Revolution
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HarperCollins, 1994. First edition
Hardcover. 507 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
All of Me
Anne Murray with Michael Posner
All of Me
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Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2009. First edition
Hardcover. 344 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
344 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. Includes index.
Starting Out, 1920-1947
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1987. First edition
Hardcover. 343 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / NEAR FINE
Dust jacket is yellowing a bit at edges.
343 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. Includes index.
First volume of Pierre Berton's autobiography, covering his Yukon childhood and his early career as a journalist in Vancouver and Toronto.
Grey Owl's Favorite Wilderness Revisited
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Penumbra Press, 1991. Revised and enlarged
Softcover. 99 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
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Exploration of the Mississagi River wilderness of northern Ontario that Grey Owl made famous, comparing the country he knew with its present state.
Leaning on the Wind: Under the Spell of the Great Chinook
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HarperCollins, 1996
Softcover. 336 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Spine slant. Pages slightly tanned.
Sylvia Plath: A Biography
Linda Wagner-Martin
Sylvia Plath: A Biography
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Sphere Books, 1990
Softcover. 282 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Shelfwear, pages tanned.
Coke Stop In Emo: Adventures Of A Long-Distance Paddler
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Key Porter Books, 1995
Softcover. 297 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Spine is creased. Otherwise clean, unmarked.
Paddling journey across Canada by the longest canoe routes, from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
Letters Home From The Crimea: A Young Cavalryman's Campaign from Balaklava and Sebastopol to Victory
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Windrush Press, 1999
Softcover. 215 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
vii, 215 p., [13] p. of plates : ill., maps.
Hurly-Burly: A Time at the Globe
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Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1990. First edition
Hardcover. 528 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Light shelfwear.
xi, 528 p. : ill. Includes index.
Doyle's memoir of his decades at the Globe and Mail, covering the newspaper's evolution and the journalists and editors who shaped it.
The Great Farini: The High-Wire Life of William Hunt
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Toronto: Viking, 1995
Hardcover. 457 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
viii, 457 p. : ill.
Wild Gooseberries: The Selected Letters of Irving Layton
Irving Layton (edited by Francis Mansbridge)
Wild Gooseberries: The Selected Letters of Irving Layton
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Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1989
Hardcover. 424 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
xxiii, 424 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-413) and indexes.
A Boy's Cottage Diary, 1904
Fred Dickinson (edited by Larry Turner)
A Boy's Cottage Diary, 1904
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Ottawa: Petherwin Heritage, 1996
Softcover. 135 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Light shelfwear.
Bill Bramah's Ontario
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Cannon, 1985
Softcover. 159 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Small gift inscription to flyleaf.
Collection of Bill Bramah's CBC Radio sketches and stories about life in small-town Ontario.