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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Oak Island and Its Lost Treasure Third Edition Formac Publishing	Uncovering the British military’s role on Nova Scotia’s “Treasure Island” Civil engineers Graham Harris and Les MacPhie have spent over a decade investigating the enigma …		264	2013	View
Wanderlust A Social History of Travel Goose Lane Editions	Where did passports come from? Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches? And how did teetotalers shape the modern vacation? Wanderlust answers these questions and more, as author Laura Byrne …	Laura Byrne Paquet	312	2007	View
From Why Leave Home? From: Wanderlust View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter One asks the question why we travel, especially leisure travel. The chapter examines the motivations behind travel, provides a brief history of travel and travellers, and explains the …	Laura Byrne Paquet	5	2007	$0.50 Add
From Pilgrim’s Progress From: Wanderlust View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Two examines the experiences of travellers on pilgrimages and pilgrims as the first tourists. The chapter explores the pilgrims of the ancient world, early Christian pilgrims, Rome as …	Laura Byrne Paquet	18	2007	$1.80 Add
From The Grand Tour Where Modern Leisure Travel Began From: Wanderlust View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Three examines the history of the Grand Tour. The chapter explores how the Grand Tour, an aristocratic rite of passage, transformed into the early version of modern leisure travel.	Laura Byrne Paquet	5	2007	$0.50 Add
From Putting on the Ritz Hotels and Other Homes Away from Home From: Wanderlust View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Four focuses on hotels, inns, and other homes one uses while traveling. The chapter explores the history of hotels dating back to 1500 BC in Crete, to Roman Villa’s, Middle Eastern …	Laura Byrne Paquet	29	2007	$2.90 Add
From Going Down to the Sea in Ships From: Wanderlust View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Five explores the history of sea travel and ships as methods of transportation. The chapter begins with the Greeks and Roman sailing across the Mediterranean world, charter ships of the …	Laura Byrne Paquet	27	2007	$2.70 Add
From All Aboard Our Enduring Love Affair with Trains From: Wanderlust View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Six examines trains and transportation by rail. The chapter explores the invention of trains, trains as connectors of the masses across the big countries of Canada and America, the …	Laura Byrne Paquet	25	2007	$2.50 Add
From On the Road From: Wanderlust View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Seven focus on travel by the ancient roads to modern highway systems. The chapter begins with ancient roads, the silk road, the art of cartography in Europe and its development of roads …	Laura Byrne Paquet	29	2007	$2.90 Add
From Flight Patterns A Century of Air Travel From: Wanderlust View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Eight examines the history of air travel. The chapter follows air travel from the invention of flight to the development of aviation, early airlines, rise of Pan Am, types of air crafts, …	Laura Byrne Paquet	34	2007	$3.40 Add
From To Your Health Spas and Other Cures From: Wanderlust View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Nine focuses on traveling for one’s health. The chapter explorers the creation of spas and resorts for health, including roman baths, health spas and springs in the Middle Ages, …	Laura Byrne Paquet	12	2007	$1.20 Add
From If You Build It, They Will Come: Resorts and Theme Parks From: Wanderlust View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Ten explores the history of Resorts and Theme Parks. The chapter discusses topics including the birth of seaside resorts, holiday camps, ski resorts, Disneyland, shopping centres and malls.	Laura Byrne Paquet	15	2007	$1.50 Add
From The Well-Packed Bag Don’t Forget Your . . . From: Wanderlust View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Eleven focuses on the invention of travel guides and guidebooks. The chapter explores the art of travel accounts in various forms of literature from early Christian pilgrims to guidebooks …	Laura Byrne Paquet	30	2007	$3.00 Add
From Implementing the Image Part IV From: The Imaginary Indian View Arsenal Pulp Press	Images have consequences in the real world: ideas have results. The Imaginary Indian does not exist in a void. In their relations with Native people over the years, non-Native Canadians have put …	Daniel Francis	25	1992	$2.50 Add
From Implementing the Image Part IV From: The Imaginary Indian, 1st Edition View Arsenal Pulp Press	Images have consequences in the real world: ideas have results. The Imaginary Indian does not exist in a void. In their relations with Native people over the years, non-Native Canadians have put …	Daniel Francis	25	1992	$0.50 Add
From The Business of Travel From: Wanderlust View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Twelve examines the business of travel. The chapter explores topics including the money from travellers/tourists, from the grand tour to the postwar boom in travel, marketing of town or …	Laura Byrne Paquet	26	2007	$2.60 Add