Best Ontario Travel Guides
The lighthouses of the five Great Lakes -- a comprehensive collection with full-color photographs. Meticulously researched ... Comprehensive and beautifully illustrated.... An invaluable guide for those seeking to explore the fascinating history of the Great Lakes and their lighthouses, whether it be from an armchair or by vehicle. [Globe and Mail Christmas 2006 Gift Book selection] This comprehensive full-colour encylcopedia, the result of more than 15 years research, features information about more than 650 lighthouses located on the Canadian and U.S. sides of all five Great Lakes. If you own only one lighthouse book, this is the one to buy.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The book divides them by lake (Ontario, Erie, Michigan, Huron and Superior) and further by the country in which they are located (USA, all five lakes; or Canada, except Michigan which is entirely in USA). If you plan to visit them, this book will help but you need more information to actually find some of them and to figure out if you can actually reach them."
"When possible the authors list names of the lighthouse keepers with occasional firsthand accounts through logs/diaries/letters."
"Absolutely wonderful for our tour of lighthouses on the Great Lakes.0."
"Was a Wedding Gift for someone who tours with the motorcycles and loves light houses - Perfect Gift..."
"Very informative and well written."
"It has beautiful pictures and a lot of information about the history of over 600 lighthouses of the Great Lakes."
"nice book!"
"I ordered this book because of my grandson's huge interest in light houses."
Great Lakes Island Escapes: Ferries and Bridges to Adventure explores in depth over 30 of the Great Lakes Basin islands accessible by bridge or ferry and introduces more than 50 additional islands. On each trip, Dunphy was accompanied by a different friend or relative who provided her another adventurer's perspective through which to view the island experience. She has taught writing courses at Oakland University, the University of Windsor, and Oakland Community College and facilitates writing workshops on islands and on the mainland.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Highlights include the unique historical, cultural and natural aspects of each island plus the ins and outs of how to get there, where to stay, what to do and what to bring."
"Her mastery of the islands is astonishing in its detail, intelligence, advice, and warmth."
Toronto is a major North American cultural and business hub, attracting millions of international visitors. “Fodor’s is pitched a few notches higher….aimed at a fairly discerning traveler with an appetite for background and the occasional surprise.” – New York Times.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The hotel reviews were concise and helped greatly when picking a hotel that would fulfill my expectations."
"This is a decent guide but not great."
"This travel guide was great as far as Toronto goes, however I wanted to know more about the smaller suburbs where my kids live."
"Canada's biggest city has a lot on offer, from its location on the shores of Lake Ontario to its ethnically diverse neighborhoods to the iconic CN Tower to its restaurants and cultural offerings. Major professional sports?"
"The slim nature is in large part due to the quite thin (but not too fragile) paper, making it actually a pretty good deal of information in a lightweight, easy to carry package."
"It's made for someone who is looking to see all the high points in Toronto and stay in the middle to upscale places in the city. Toronto is a fantastic city and this book does a nice job hitting the high points."
Best Manitoba Travel Guides
Its first section provides an overview of the region's geography, the nature of its canoe routes, and the influence of natural and cultural history on those routes. Its second, larger section features annotated versions of 50 topographic maps derived from the well-known Canadian National Topographic System and constructed in digital form by the Geographic Information Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. The Canoe Atlas of the Little North has does it now through the sheer breadth and depth of the information collected, the effort that went into presentation, and the staggering ambirion of mapping routes over an area larger than most of the world's countries.... This is more than a canoe-route planner, this is a dreamer's book for those long, chilly winter evenings when your imagination drifts north, and you are looking for comfort in a faraway place where you want to drop your canoe and paddle around the next point. This annotated collection of 50 topographical maps and canoe routes covers more than 1.3 million square kilometres of land and waterways in Manitoba and Ontario, providing detailed information about one of the last remaining great wilderness areas of North America.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Because of the sheer size of the region covered, the maps are necessarily of small scale, but these are of immense value in identifying routes that include everything from the major waterways used by early traders, native peoples, and modern-day paddlers to obscure, height-of-land routes and tiny waterways known almost exclusively to native folks living in the area."
"The Canoe Atlas of the Little North is an amazing book covering N.W."
"I appreciate the authors' willingness to share their collective knowledge of the area through detailed descriptions, artwork, and pencil sketches."
"I have paddled my share of the Little North."
"It is a must have for anyone interested in understanding traditional canoeing routes and connections."
"I bought this atlas as a special birthday gift for my husband - he's from Sioux Lookout and LOVES the north... canoeing... hunting... etc... he also loves to pour over maps."
Best Alberta Travel Guides
The 2017 edition has more than 700 pages of detailed travel information on 30 major routes―including the Alaska Highway, which celebrates its 75 th anniversary this year―and 60 side trips, totaling more than 15,000 miles of road in Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia and Alberta.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I bought this for my 14 year old grandson whose goal is to take a trip to Alaska upon his graduation from high school."
"I drove from Homer, Alaska through Canada and down to Seattle over a three-month camping trip."
"If you are planning to go to Alaska within a year or two, you HAVE TO get this."
"The detailed information was invaluable as lots of the roads we traveled were remote and lonely."
"Got the book in yesterday, this is a great book far beyond anything I could have imagined, Planning on going in a couple years and heard this is a good book."
"This book was a lifesaver on our trip from the Gulf of Mexico to Anchorage!!!"
"BEST guide book ever!"
"If you are planning a road trip to Alaska you need this book."
Best Quebec Travel Guides
This travel guide includes: · Side Trips from Quebec City including Cote-de-Beaupre, Ile d'Orleans, and Charlevoix. “Fodor’s is pitched a few notches higher….aimed at a fairly discerning traveler with an appetite for background and the occasional surprise.” – New York Times.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Got it for my trip to Montreal this summer."
"Very comprehensive guide book for the area!"
"Exactly as described, very pleased with purchase."
"Excellent guide books as are all Fodor's products."
"I'm sure it will be actively used as our travel guide once we arrive, pointing us in good directions for everything we want to see and do."
"I always find Fodor's guides to be the best."
"Nice guide - very thorough and great maps!"
"This book provided a blueprint for discovering this beautiful city."
Best Nova Scotia Travel Guides
200 species included More than 600 detailed line drawings More than 400 color photographs Innovative color-tabbed system for species identification Illustrated species identification keys Helpful tips for moss collecting. "Since this is the first moss field guide for the eastern states covering most common species, it fills a need for those interested in these plants." "I have no doubt that this guide will become a trusted field companion for outdoor educators and amateur naturalists, who may be new to moss identification, as well as to botanists interested in refreshing their moss identification skills. Common Mosses fills a long-standing void in moss field guides for the region, and, as such, this guide will make the identification of these small plants more accessible to a wider botanical audience."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book should be on the shelf of any lover of the outdoors in northeastern U.S."
"For the first time, it's possible for beginners to identify mosses without a struggle."
"Mosses are all around us and, for me, it is a pleasure to be able to identify them."
"Especially helpful is that the book provides a large photo of the moss as it will look when you see it in the forest, plus smaller pictures of the leaves as you'll see them if you look in a microscope, plus a drawing showing you what about the leaves are distinctive."
"Basically there is a branch and leaf type guide on the edges of the pages and nicely color coded so that determining a species is very straightforward."
"Very useable and useful field guide."
"great guide and it came with a water proof cover."
"I love the full color photos, diagrams, easy to use index and even the key in the back."
Best Newfoundland Travel Guides
When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. As the passengers stepped from the airplanes, exhausted, hungry and distraught after being held on board for nearly 24 hours while security checked all of the baggage, they were greeted with a feast prepared by the townspeople. Despite the grim consequences that led to the situation, DeFede finds humor: two flight attendants are offered a car for sightseeing by a local woman who happened to be driving by; the stranded chairman of Hugo Boss finds himself shopping for men's underwear at the local Wal-Mart.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The shelf full of books for my grandkids to read and keep for their grandkids because of the tangible and intangible life stories and lessons told."
"The people of Gander and the surrounding area are wonderful and we can only hope to be as giving as they were on those days."
"This is a terrific story about the thousands of people stranded in Gander immediately after the 9/11 attacks."
"A very heart warming story and a good reminder that there are wonderful people in the world."
"A FANTASTIC book about the BEST that people can be at a time when others were showing their worst!"
"The story of Gander should always be told when the story of 9/11 is told."
"Love the details and effort that went into writing this book.if you no longer believe in the kindness of humanity this is a great book to read to restore your faith."
"This is an easy read and tells the story of real people in a small town or two who gave of themselves unselfishly to help hundreds of people stranded in their area of the world."
Best Saskatchewan Travel Guides
An invaluable resource for paddlers preparing to face the challenges of Canada’s old fur trade highway, Canoeing the Churchill is also an exhilarating trek into the past for the "armchair voyageur." Gregory P. Marchildon has always enjoyed exploring new places, whether in a canoe in northern Saskatchewan or an ocean kayak along the coast of Panama.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is a great book."
"(luckily) Our trip started from Pinehouse lake, and two of us paddled past stanley mission, then backtracked to missinipe, eventually covering some 140 miles. This book covers the whole of the churchill river in detail, while giving brief historical backgrounds about the voyageurs who used to make a living on the waterway."
"It is hard to imagine that anyone could ever write a better reference manual to canoeing the historically significant section of the Canadian fur trade route which runs through Saskatchewan."
"Beyond the guide book aspects, this book explains the history, culture, geology and botany of the region."
Best New Brunswick Travel Guides
200 species included More than 600 detailed line drawings More than 400 color photographs Innovative color-tabbed system for species identification Illustrated species identification keys Helpful tips for moss collecting. "Since this is the first moss field guide for the eastern states covering most common species, it fills a need for those interested in these plants." "I have no doubt that this guide will become a trusted field companion for outdoor educators and amateur naturalists, who may be new to moss identification, as well as to botanists interested in refreshing their moss identification skills. Common Mosses fills a long-standing void in moss field guides for the region, and, as such, this guide will make the identification of these small plants more accessible to a wider botanical audience."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book should be on the shelf of any lover of the outdoors in northeastern U.S."
"For the first time, it's possible for beginners to identify mosses without a struggle."
"Mosses are all around us and, for me, it is a pleasure to be able to identify them."
"Especially helpful is that the book provides a large photo of the moss as it will look when you see it in the forest, plus smaller pictures of the leaves as you'll see them if you look in a microscope, plus a drawing showing you what about the leaves are distinctive."
"Basically there is a branch and leaf type guide on the edges of the pages and nicely color coded so that determining a species is very straightforward."
"Very useable and useful field guide."
"great guide and it came with a water proof cover."
"I love the full color photos, diagrams, easy to use index and even the key in the back."
Best British Columbia Travel Guides
The 2017 edition has more than 700 pages of detailed travel information on 30 major routes―including the Alaska Highway, which celebrates its 75 th anniversary this year―and 60 side trips, totaling more than 15,000 miles of road in Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia and Alberta.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I bought this for my 14 year old grandson whose goal is to take a trip to Alaska upon his graduation from high school."
"I drove from Homer, Alaska through Canada and down to Seattle over a three-month camping trip."
"If you are planning to go to Alaska within a year or two, you HAVE TO get this."
"The detailed information was invaluable as lots of the roads we traveled were remote and lonely."
"Got the book in yesterday, this is a great book far beyond anything I could have imagined, Planning on going in a couple years and heard this is a good book."
"This book was a lifesaver on our trip from the Gulf of Mexico to Anchorage!!!"
"BEST guide book ever!"
"If you are planning a road trip to Alaska you need this book."
Best Canadian Territories Travel Guides
The MILEPOST® is Alaska’s most extensive and best-known travel guide.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"A must have for anyone planning a road trip to Alaska."
"It has been 4 years since we made the trip, and I know that things are always changing, it's great to have an updated source of info all in one spot."
"People in the lower 48 just don't realize how remote of an area the Alcan Hwy is and it nice to know with this book it tells you what's around you mile by mile."
"If you google while you have wifi and go by the cardinal rules of the alcan (get gas every half tank), you can get there without this."
"I read about this guide on a travel site and I am so glad that I purchased it."
"This book has a VERY comprehensive breakdown of all the major highways in Alaska, what you can see at each mile marker, where all the beautiful camera spots are, what you might expect to see at the suggested photo op sites, what the road conditions are for that year, (if there's any frost heave, for example) or if the roads are rough in certain sections....where the gas stations are, how many miles till the next one, where the best pullouts are for views of the Alaskan ranges."
"In fact, Alaska and Northwest Canada offer an unsurpassed opportunity to experience a pre-urban world of rugged country, covered with forests, streams, lakes, mountains, tundra, glaciers, and lots of wildlife, where the traveler can spend hours or days out of sight of his or her fellow humans. The opportunities for outdoor adventure, whether hiking, biking, canoeing, kayaking, skiing, snow machining, dog sledding, fishing or hunting, are simply fantastic. The Milepost offers a mile-by-mile travelogue, updated annually, for the main roads, along with maps, diagrams of some key towns, photographs, and advertisements for attractions, accomodations, and other travel facilities."
Best Prince Edward Island Travel Guides
An indispensable highway companion, Scenic Driving Atlantic Canada includes route maps and in-depth descriptions of attractions. Pack up the car and enjoy 29 drives through the rich history and beautiful coastal scenery of Atlantic Canada—including New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Loved some of the special places to visit, i.e Nova Scotia, detour out of Wolfville to Fox Hill Farm for cheese tasting of aged Cheddar and Gouda."
"Fantastic information about driving in Nova Scotia."
"Since the descriptions are mostly text, hard to visualize a part of the continent I am not familiar with."
"Easy, clear reading."
"Lots of great information."
"There is so much to chose from while traveling Atlantic Canada."
"This was bought as a gift and I've not actually seen it, but my parents who are planning a trip to Nova Scotia next year said it helped a lot."
"A good beginning to trip plans!"