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

People of the Deer

A Whale for the Killing

And No Birds Sang

My Life on Earth and Elsewhere
