No comments about Niagara Daredevils: Thrills and Spills over Niagara Falls (Amazing Stories).

No comments about Working and Living in Canada, 2nd (Working and Living in Canada).

No comments about 103 Hikes in Southwestern British Columbia.

5 comments about CANADA (Eyewitness Travel Guides).

1. The one guide that covers the world's 3rd largest country at it's best. Experience Canada's great cities and spectacular scenery as no other guide book can describe them. An added benefit to the seasoned traveller, a must for the first time visitor to Canada.



2. Canada is the world's 2ND LARGEST COUNTRY, only Russia is larger.



3. This another great guide in the Eyewitness line. Offers lots of great information in addition to all of the great photos. All of the great graphics contained with in this book are what makes so good.



4. I've visited Canada twice, and am entertaining the idea of moving there permanently, so I'm trying ro read and learn as much as I can about the country, and so far haven't found a better guide than this one.

   While it's not really a history book, it does have some information of the country's past and present, including timelines, events and reknown people. As for it's travel guide side, well, it's quite excellent. As all DK Eyewitness guides, this one divides the country into 13 areas: Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick-Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, Montreal, Quebec City and the St. Lawrence river, Southern and Northern Quebec, Toronto, Ottawa and Eastern Ontario, The great lakes, Central Canada, Vancouver and Vancouver Island, The Rocky mountains, Southern and Northern British Columbia and Northern Canada. For each one you get information on sites, places of interest, museums, places to stay, places to eat, street walking tours, and as usual, great cut-aways, floor plans and reconstructions, plus a whole lot of pictures.

   If you're visiting Canada, you can't miss with this guide.




5. DK's popular eyewitness travel guides provide a superb resource for planning and enjoying a trip to Canada. The guide combines narrative, maps, photos, and diagrams to capture the highlights in each region of Canada. Examples include historical sites, city zoos, beautiful natural scenary, uniquely Canadian institutions such as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Academy and Museum, and Canada's excellent provincial museum system. Combined with local maps, this guide allows visitors to find and enjoy their choice of a variety of attractions. The guide includes tips on navigating Canadian customs, airports, dining, accomodations, and money. This reviewer utilized the guide for a multi-day trip on the Trans-Canadian Highway, picking out interesting sites to visit during each day's travel.
   
   This guide is highly recommended to anyone planning a visit to Canada, a very worthwhile destination.

1 comments about Wilderness Rivers of Manitoba: Journey by Canoe Through the Land Where the Spirit Lives.

1. I enjoyed this book and it is in many ways a very unusual book. It was written by Hap Wilson with the help of his wife Stephanie Aykroyd. They are experienced wilderness activists, canoe adventurers, and photographers. Hap has written other similar books and they live north of Toronto in Ontario, Canada (the province next to Manitoba) in a semi-wilderness and cottage area know as Muskoka. They are very passionate about their wilderness experiences and their various views on the environment and canoeing. I am from Manitoba originally, owned a canoe in that region, and know a little bit about the area. Having said that, this book covers some of the most remote areas of the province and the rivers - especially the most northerly - are rarely travelled by the general public. So this book is a bit of a pioneering effort and a great introduction. Some of the river trips last months.
   
   The book is a combination of personal philosophy about the use of wilderness areas, an introduction to river canoeing, river etiquette, photographs and maps. The book can be enjoyed even if you never leave home. After hearing about polar bears some will want to stay at home.
   
   Once we get passed the introduction, there is an approximate 25 page long guide to the climate, vegetation, and wildlife of Manitoba along with tips and techniques for camping and preparing for the river trips. This is mainly text and photos with a variety of hand sketches.
   
   Next they follow a formula approach where each river system is discussed and presented as a trip - which Hap and others have made - accompanied with a river guide, hand drawn sketches of the rivers down to the sub kilometre level to show rapids and boat paths through rapids, photographs, comments on rapids, portages, degree of difficulty, insects, wildlife, length, access, etc. This takes about 130 pages. They cover 11 rivers starting in the southeast with the Manigotagan that flows through a forested region and they continue northward, river after river, finally to the Caribou River that runs through northern rolling Precambrian plain to Hudson Bay. This river runs through a northerly region that has a July mean temperature hovering around just 13 C or 56 F, and is almost but not quite void of life. They go to great lengths and according to the authors it took years to produce detailed guide. They describe each river in detail, river by river, each river with comments so that one can use the book as a practical river guide - supported with additional maps.
   
   I have two minor complaints. The author likes to embellish the book with complicated words when simpler will do and because he is not John Updike it does not add to the book an some long words somehow feel out of place, i.e: "a landscape so discrete and multifarious as to beguile the senses", etc. just seems out of place when compared to the rest of the writing. My second peeve is the introduction. The author spent a lot of time and effort making the trips and doing the required research and making the maps, and detailing each river in a standardized format - all great stuff. But the introduction contains a lot of sentences and phrases that as I mentioned above seem out of place but shed little light on the subject and where the book will take us. It would be better to have a crisply written executive type summary at the start that summarizes where the book is summarized, saying for example, I travelled down the Pigeon River in 1998 in July with two other people during medium flow and warm and sunny weather. It took us 10 days. The trip down the Berens River was made a month later and took a week, etc. so we get a general feel for how long all the trips took and when and at what time of the year the trips were made. I read the book once and then found myself jumping back and forth to generate my own overview of the situation of what he did in terms of trips and dates. It is still not clear to myself. These are minor complaints but a better introduction/summary would help with simple English - constructive criticism - I hope.
   
   Otherwise this is a great book, I am glad that I purchased the book. It shows what and where a novice can do to start, and what river to take, and how to plan a trip. Also it alerted me to the fact that the authors have other similar nature books.

1 comments about Prop Riders: 60 Years of Racing Hydroplanes.

1. A fantastic book that goes deep into hydroplane racing's past. A must read if you've ever had an interest in the history of hydros & boat racing. The book targets mainly the automobile engine, powered inboard hydroplane. And this is the best one, (and only one) written by an American author, who has spent his entire life around these fascinating boats. Added bonus are the tables on US National Champions, Speed Records, etc. This book is sure to be a collectors item.

No comments about A Paddler's Guide to Quetico and Beyond (Paddler's Guide).

1 comments about Darwin Wiggett Photographs Canada.

1. This book takes you around all of Canada and it centers in what Canada is know for "the outdoors". If you are looking for big cities and things, this is not the book for you. But if you are interested is seeing the big outdoors that Canada has to offer then this is the book.

   I have this books since 1998 and I am still impress by the great pictures that it has and it makes me want to go and visit Canada, just one more time.

3 comments about Fodor's Nova Scotia & Atlantic Canada, 9th Edition: With New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland & Labrador (Fodor's Gold Guides).

1. The details of what is seen in the various areas are very helpful. Fodors takes you town by town in an orderly fashion with helpful information in planning your trip.
   I found that after reading this book, my vacation plans were changed to accomodate more sightseeing. It was very beneficial.



2. I am organising a trip in the Maritimes and this guide was the best. Very helpfull, very easy to read and you can tell the writers are from the area, they know the places.



3. Anything you need to know is in this book!! Easy to use and wonderful explanations of all areas - dining, lodging and things to see! Fodor's does it all for you!

1 comments about Ontario Road & Recreational Atlas (Canadian Road & Recreational Atlas Series).

1. I bought this atlas expecting it to have some more information on the parks and recreation shown on the maps...but no such luck. There is very little information on the parks aside from a list of where they are. The atlas also doesn't contain things like Ski hills, or other forms of recreation...just conservation areas and provincial parks.