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  • Tom Thomson

    The Silence and the Storm

    by David Silcox, Harold Town ...
    A stunning new edition of the Canadian classic with never-before-seen paintingsFirst published in 1977 to commemorate the centenary of the birth of a Canadian painter whose brief, brilliant life, and untimely death in a mysterious canoe accident, gained him mythic status in his homeland, Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm quickly attained legendary status in its own right. This newly designed ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • Defiant Spirits

    The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven

    by Ross King ...
    Beginning in 1912, Defiant Spirits traces the artistic development of Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley, over a dozen years in Canadian history. Working in an eclectic and sometimes controversial blend of modernist styles, they produced what an English ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tom Thomson

    Artist of the North

    by Wayne Larsen ...
    Series Book 28 - Quest Biography
    Tom Thomson (1877-1917) occupies a prominent position in Canada's national culture and has become a celebrated icon for his magnificent landscapes as well as for his brief life and mysterious death. The shy, enigmatic artist and woodsman's innovative painting style produced such seminal Canadian images as The Jack Pine and The West Wind, while his untimely drowning nearly a century ago is still a ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Ghost Towns of Muskoka

    by Andrew Hind, Maria Da Silva ...
    Ghost Towns of Muskoka explores the tragic history of a collection of communities from across Muskoka whose stars have long since faded. Today, these ghost towns are merely a shadow -- or spectre -- of what they once were. Some have disappeared entirely, having been swallowed by regenerating forests, while others have been reduced to foundations, forlorn buildings, and silent ruins. A few support ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Consuming Passions

    Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

    by Judith Flanders ...
    A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women, from the author of the bestselling ‘The Victorian House’.Imagine a world where only one in five people owns a book, where just one in ten has a knife or a fork – a world where five people out of every six do not own a cup to hold a hot ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Art Detective

    Adventures of an Antiques Roadshow Appraiser

    by Philip Mould ...
    The art world has never seemed quite so treacherous, so beguiling- and so much funWhat separates a masterpiece from a piece of junk? Thanks to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and its American spin-off, everyone is searching garage sales and hunting online for hidden gems, wondering whether their attics contain trash or treasures. In The Art Detective, Philip Mould, one of the world's foremost ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • A.Y. Jackson

    The Life of a Landscape Painter

    by Wayne Larsen ...
    Alexander Young Jackson (1882-1974) is a name that instantly conjures up images of our rugged northern landscape and the controversial Group of Seven. This is the first-ever full-length biography of one of Canada’s most beloved characters, and the first to examine in one book the artist, outdoorsman, soldier, teacher, debater, writer, and outspoken defender of modern art.Jackson spent nearly ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arts & Crafts House Styles

    by Trevor Yorke ...
    The Arts & Crafts movement began as an instinctive reaction to the new Industrial Age. Seeking a return to simple craftsmanship, with traditional materials, its influence spread both to Europe and North America, where the term 'craftsman' denoted a traditional style of architecture and interior design prevalent before the 1920s. In England the Arts & Crafts influence upon house building was far ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Concise History of Candian Architecture

    Edited by Harold Kalman ...
    As in the original work, Harold Kalman presents a panorama of Canadian building as rich as it is vast, from the dwellings of pre-contact Native peoples and the first European settlers to the revolutionary structures of the Modernist period and the renewed apprediation of the past that marks much of the architecture created on the eve of the new millennium. Emphasizing social and cultural contexts, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Beswick Pottery

    by Val Baynton ...
    Series Book 669 - Shire Library
    Founded in 1894 by James Wright Beswick, Beswick Pottery remained in the family for three generations before becoming part of Royal Doulton in 1969.As owners and collectors of its products will testify, Beswick aimed to produce well-made ceramics at affordable prices: wares which could be used daily in the home as well as decorative ornaments for animal lovers of all ages to cherish.In this volume ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Kenneth Clark

    Life, Art and Civilisation

    by James Stourton ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BERGER PRIZE FOR BRITISH ART HISTORY 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017A SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEARA SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARAN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEARFrom his time as Bernard Berenson’s protégé to being... ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Alligators of the North

    The Story of the West & Peachey Steam Warping Tugs

    by Harry Barrett, Clarence F. Coons ...
    The Alligator was an amphibious machine designed and patented in Canada in the late 1880s. This warping tug was capable of towing al og boomk across a lake and then portaging itself to the next body of water. Steam-powered and rugged, it was one of the pioneers in the mechanization of the forest industry and for more than thirty years was ubiquitous in northern Ontario until eclipsed by its worthy ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus