Christmas 2012: The BEST Canadian Non-Fiction
Ah, Christmas. The perfect time to create a serious wish list of books that one can longingly hope to unwrap under the tree. The following list ignores budgets and all elements of practicality. It's indulgent, ludicrous and features some of the coolest Canadian non-fiction books published in 2012.
The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas
The Natural History of the New World, Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales
Creation and Transformation
Defining Moments in Inuit Art
A Concise History of Canadian Painting
Traffic
Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980
Civilizing the Wilderness
Culture and Nature in Pre-Confederation Canada and Rupert’s Land
Canada and the Second World War
Essays in Honour of Terry Copp
Arthur Erickson
An Architect's Life
Tragedy at Dieppe
Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942
The Inconvenient Indian
A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Last Viking, The
The Life of Roald Amundsen
Working the Dead Beat
50 Lives that Changed Canada
Worlding Sei Shônagon
The Pillow Book in Translation
Canada at War
A Graphic History of World War Two
Into the Silence
The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest