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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.

by Don Gorman · Tagged nature, photography, outdoors, history, #GiveCDN

The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas

The Natural History of the New World, Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales

edited by François-Marc Gagnon
with Nancy Senior & Réal Ouellet

Creation and Transformation

Defining Moments in Inuit Art

by (author) Winnipeg Art Gallery, Susan Gustavison, Ingo Hessel, Christine Lalonde & Norman Vorano
edited by Darlene Wight

A Concise History of Canadian Painting

by (author) Dennis Reid

Traffic

Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980

edited by Grant Arnold & Karen Henry
contributions by Vincent Bonin, Catharine Crowston, Jayne Wark & William Wood

Civilizing the Wilderness

Culture and Nature in Pre-Confederation Canada and Rupert’s Land

by (author) A.A. den Otter

Canada and the Second World War

Essays in Honour of Terry Copp

edited by Geoffrey Hayes, Matt Symes & Mike Bechthold

Arthur Erickson

An Architect's Life

by (author) David Stouck

Tragedy at Dieppe

Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942

by (author) Mark Zuehlke

The Inconvenient Indian

A Curious Account of Native People in North America

by (author) Thomas King

Last Viking, The

The Life of Roald Amundsen

by (author) Stephen Bown

Working the Dead Beat

50 Lives that Changed Canada

by (author) Sandra Martin
foreword by William Thorsell

Worlding Sei Shônagon

The Pillow Book in Translation

by (author) Valerie Henitiuk

Canada at War

A Graphic History of World War Two

by (author) Paul Keery
by (artist) Michael Wyatt

Into the Silence

The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

by (author) Wade Davis

People of the Deer

by (author) Farley Mowat

A Whale for the Killing

by (author) Farley Mowat

And No Birds Sang

by (author) Farley Mowat

My Life on Earth and Elsewhere

by (author) R. Murray Schafer

The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson

by (author) George A. Walker