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A Field Guide to Whales, Porpoises and Seals From Cape Cod to Newfoundland Amazon CDN Price: $19.91 Amazon US Price: $12.57

A Newfoundland Son Amazon CDN Price: $19.38 Amazon US Price: $13.98 n/a

As Near To Heaven By Sea Amazon CDN Price: $25.20 Amazon US Price: $7.97 As Near to Heaven by Sea, Major recounts tales of lost Beothuk fishers and hunters, Leif Eriksson and his Viking colonists, waters teaming with fish, and hardy European settlers who made the Rock their home. Even the land itself is fertile ground for storytelling. Blessed with staggering beauty, Labrador has some of the oldest dated rock on earth, drawing rockhounds and mining companies from around the world. The Saglek Fjord in northern Labrador, for instance, boasts rocks 3.8 billion years old.

Back Packing Across Newfoundland Amazon CDN Price: n/a Amazon US Price: $14.95 Travel along with the author and his companion by reading the daily journals from his thirty-day trek from Robinson on Newfoundlands west coast to Sunnyside, Trinity Bay. This book is ideal to throw in your knapsack as you commence on your own hiking adventures.

Bush Pilot Angler Amazon CDN Price: $37.50 Amazon US Price: $19.96 What a splendid discovery this journal is. Its pages document Wulff's hard work in establishing the remote Canadian salmon and trout fisheries he first saw from the air, his joys on the stream and in the air, his love for the pristine land and its bounty, his uphill battles with native Newfoundlers over concerns about overfishing, and his triumphs--and calamities--in search of memorable fish. These pages also evoke the immense spirit that attended the man who wrote it

Cabot: John Cabot and the Journey to Newfoundland Amazon CDN Price: $23.58 Amazon US Price: $14.88

Cape Random Amazon CDN Price: n/a Amazon US Price: $10.36 Fluently written and carefully researched, this debut is an epic account of a displaced and unskilled family's heroic fight for survival in the early 1800s at Cape Random, a barren, isolated landfall on Newfoundland's eastern coast. Theng two-thirds of the novel centers on Lavinia Andrews, who is 17 when the chronicle begins. Seaman Ned Andrews, the lighthearted family breadwinner, and his family are banished from their home in Weymouth, England, when Ned is caught selling salt cod in surreptitious competition with his wealthy, autocratic employer. Seeking a fresh start, the Andrews family books passage to Newfoundland, expecting to debark at the thriving port of St. John's, but they're put aground by an unscrupulous captain at a bleak outpost on the "French Shore." It's inhabited by the Vincent family and enigmatic Thomas Hutchings, the well-educated, lone-wolf caretaker of the hardscrabble fishing and sealing station, where the supply boat has left only minimal provisions for the approaching winter. Near-starvation, illness and petty enmity ensue, but the necessity to prevail against the elements forges bonds of respect and camaraderie between the struggling residents

Death On The Ice: The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster Of 1914 Amazon CDN Price: $13.95 Amazon US Price: n/a Book - Cassie Brown - Death On The Ice In 1914, for two long, freezing days and nights a party of seal hunters- one-hundred and thirty-two men- were left stranded on an icefield floating in the North Atlantic in winter. They were thinly dressed, with almost no food, and with no hope of shelter on the ice against the snow or the constant bitter winds. To survive they had to keep moving. Those who lay down to rest, died. This is an incredible true story of bungling, greed, suffering and heroism. The disaster is carefull traced, step by step. With the aid of compelling, contemporary photographs, this book paints an unforgettable portrait of the bloody trade of seal hunting among the icefields when ships-and men- were expendable.

Doctor Olds of Twillingate: A Portrait of An American Surgeon in Newfoundland Amazon CDN Price: $19.95 Amazon US Price: $19.95 This is the engrossing story of a bright John Hopkins graduate who fell in love with as a student and became the medical care system in northeast Newfoundland for 40 Years. Crusty, caring and UN conventional, John Old's surgical skill and devotion made him a folk hero. Old's help pioneer thoracic and orthopedic surgery in Newfoundland. In 1970 Newfoundland declared a province wide "Dr. Old's Day;" asked why he came to Twillingate for 1 year and stayed for 40, Newfoundland's Connecticut Yankee tersely replied: "because I liked it".

Downhill Chance Amazon CDN Price: $16.50 Amazon US Price: $11.20 Donna Morrissey's second novel, Downhill Chance, is every bit as satisfying asKit's Law, her first, which established this author of the outports as a major new voice in Newfoundland and Canadian fiction. Morrissey, who has been called "a twentieth-century Brontë sister," weaves an old-fashioned yarn of love, despair, and family secrets against the backdrop of World War II in pre-Confederation Newfoundland. The Osmonds and the Gales are separated by only a few miles of rocky coastline, but it might as well be a thousand miles for all the contact the two families expect to have. Reclusive Luke Osmond lives with his extended clan in Rocky Head, a remote community of six houses "whose people were thought to be more than a little dull in thought, and whose youngsters were reported to be as brazen as a moulting goose." Clair Gale and her young sister Missy come from the Basin, a bustling metropolis by comparison. It takes a war halfway around the world for Luke's older brother and Clair's father Job to meet, but the downward pull of this tragic wartime encounter destroys one family and threatens to divide a second.

Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure Amazon CDN Price: n/a Amazon US Price: $11.90 In 1903 Leonidas Hubbard set out to cross the Ungava-Labrador Peninsula, and to forge a name for himself as an adventure writer. He took a friend, a guide, a canoe, a ton of equipment, and scads of naive hope. Months later, the friend and guide staggered out of the snow, and Hubbard starved to death in his tent, too weak to attempt the 30-mile trek to safety. And that's just Part I. James West Davidson and John Rugge narrate with simple dignity, making vividly tangible the wretchedness of mosquitoes, the panic of no food, and the rocky tangle of the Labrador wilderness.

Home For Christmas: Stories From the Maritimes and Newfoundland Amazon CDN Price: $16.11 Amazon US Price: $18.95

Kit's Law Amazon CDN Price: $18.70 Amazon US Price: $10.40 Kit's Law is the passionate, well-told story of three feisty female characters struggling against imposed order and male tradition in a harsh Newfoundland outport. Lizzy is the steadfast grandmother; crazy, red-haired Josie, the mother; and Kit, the 14-year-old daughter who tells their story. Like a maritime cutter, the narrative sails along smoothly, and much of the dialogue is in the distinctive argot of that windy Atlantic island: "When it's clear like ice and ribbed on the bottom--that's the killin' frost. Your berries are dead. Good for moose and caribou pickin's. Now, there's them that picks 'em anyway, and that's why their jam is as tart as a whore's arse." With its partridgeberry patches, moose stew, and endless cups of tea, this is quintessential Newfoundland. After Lizzy dies, the nasty local pastor wants to put Kit in an orphanage and Josie in an appropriate institution. The compassionate Doctor Hodgins becomes their staunch defender against both do-gooders and those plotting Kit's downfall. This first novel is a female coming-of-age story of the rural variety, replete with endemic poverty, good-hearted and downright evil village people, and the constant irritant of Newfoundland's raw, nasty weather. It is also the touching story of Kit's first love, and it reads like a breeze. --Mark Frutkin

Latitudes Of Melt Amazon CDN Price: $17.85 Amazon US Price: $24.00 The novel with a fantastic conceit: a baby in a basket on a piece of ice survives the sinking of the Titanic and is discovered by a kindly Newfoundland fisherman, Francis St. Croix. He dubs her Aurora because she is found "in a gleaming dawn," and she becomes part of the St. Croix family. Aurora is a delightfully quirky child, who seems to embody the unusual circumstances of her incredible journey. She has white hair, is never cold, gambols barefoot where others hesitate to tread, loves nature and has a special affinity for animals. The small community in the valley of the Drook, where the St. Croix family lives, looks upon her as of another world. Even Tom Mulloy, the man she comes to marry, sees her as "a fairy maid."

Ninety - Nine Newfies Amazon CDN Price: $44.29 Amazon US Price: $31.95 Kathleen Kiesselbach from Notre Dame, IN United States Pat Seawell has not only done a wonderful job editing this book of Newfoundland dog stories, but she has singlehandedly pulled a large group of people together to the benefit of our beloved breed! She has, with grace, tireless hard work, and tremendous caring, developed a surefire strategy to filter funds into the Newfoundland Dog Health Challenge. I believe that this effort will continue to produce volumes of stories that showcase the antics of our Newfies--and we will cherish them forever.

Over The Side, Mickey: A Sealer's First Hand Account of the Newfoundland Seal Hunt Amazon CDN Price: $2.00 Amazon US Price: $14.95 As a person who has led campaigns against the Canadian Sealing industry for 25 years, I can vouch for the accuracy of the events portrayed in this book. Mickey Dwyer is a sealer and no friend of mine but what he writes in this book speaks more to the issues of cruelty and waste than anything that I or any other opponent could write. We would be called liars for stating what Dwyer proudly confesses to in this book. It is a worthwhile book and deserves a place in the history of the bloody Canadian seal hunt.

Random Passage Amazon CDN Price: $17.95 Amazon US Price: $17.95 Forced to leave their native England, the Andrews family books passage to a fresh start in a distant country, only to discover a barren, inhospitable land at the end of their crossing. To seventeen-year-old Lavinia, uprooted from everything familiar, it seems a fate worse than the one they left behind. Driven by loneliness she begins a journal. Random Passage satisfies the craving for those details that headstones and history books can never give: the "real" story of our Newfoundland ancestors, of how time and chance brought them to the forbidding shores of a new found land. It is a saga of families and of individuals; of acquisitive Mary Bundle; of charming Ned whose thievery has turned his family into exiles; of mad Ida; of Thomas Hutchings, who might be an aristocrat, a holy man or a murderer; and of Lavinia-who wrote down the truth and lies about them all.

Sea Of Heartbreak: An Extraordinary Account Of A Newfoundland Fishing Voyage Amazon CDN Price: $18.66 Amazon US Price: $15.95 In the summer of 1998, onboard a small boat on an immense and unforgiving sea, Michael Dwyer sails, with seven other crewmen, to Labrador on a turbot fishing expedition. Sea of Heartbreak is a personal account of his experience aboard the Styx, a 65-foot steel trawler, as it makes its way to the highly competitive fishing grounds. Along the way, Dwyer is filled with wonder at the beauty and serenity of being at sea. He observes spectacular sunsets, the dazzling northern lights and majestic icebergs in soft hues of green and blue. The only sound to break the silence is the hypnotic, assuring purr of the main engine. As he soon finds out, however, this sense of security and tranquility is fleeting. Not only must the Styx navigate its way through the hazards of "Iceberg Alley," but Dwyer must also fight an inner battle as he constantly witnesses the abhorrent waste in the fishing industry. The nets haul in more "garbage" than turbot, and the collector boat rejects most of the turbot that is caught.

Shipwrecks of Newfoundland and Labrador Amazon CDN Price: $20.72 Amazon US Price: $14.95 n/a

Star in the Storm Amazon CDN Price: $19.98 Amazon US Price: $4.99 Harlow's descriptive prose clearly evokes images of the Newfoundland coast and life in 1912, and she carefully incorporates folklore of the region into her story. Maggie, 12, is determined to keep her beloved Newfoundland, Sirius, in spite of a new law that bans all but sheepdogs from this sheep-raising community. The characters are drawn with a heavy hand and are either evil or good at the beginning. Maggie's determination makes her the most interesting and endearing character.

The Big Score:Robert Friedland, Inco, and The Voisey's Bay Hustle Amazon CDN Price: $18.66 Amazon US Price: n/a From the windswept Labrador coast, where the massive nickel deposit was discovered, to the boardrooms of Singapore, Toronto, and Vancouver where the giant poker game for Diamond Fields was played out, the story behind Voisey's Bay has enormous economic significance for Canada and international financial markets. One of the most intriguing elements was the takeover battle for Diamond Fields that pitted the conservative management team at the world's largest nickel company, Inco Ltd., against free-wheeling stock promoter Robert Friedland.

The Day The World Came To Town / 9-11, Gander. Amazon CDN Price: $22.55 Amazon US Price: $10.36 The events of September 11 have seemingly been covered, analyzed, and discussed from every angle imaginable. So the subject matter alone of Jim DeFede's The Day the World Came to Town makes it noteworthy. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, 38 commercial airliners carrying over 6,000 passengers were forced, as a precautionary measure, to land in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. Due to the ongoing closure of U.S. airspace, the passengers spent four days in this isolated town of 10,000 before being allowed to continue on their way. In that time, Gander's residents rallied together to extend a kind of hospitality that seems too expansive for the word hospitality.

The First Landfall: Historic Lighthouses of Newfoundland and Labrador Amazon CDN Price: $18.95 Amazon US Price: $18.95 The story of ten of the province most historic lighthouses, each chapter highlights one of these magnificent places. Tales of heroic rescues and tragic shipwrecks are laced with descriptions of Newfoundland's coastal flora and fauna. Travel back in time to touch the weathered stone and iron towers, which still encircle Newfoundland's rugged coastline

The Hangashore Amazon CDN Price: $15.29 Amazon US Price: $15.95 Trouble begins in a small Newfoundland fishing outport when a new magistrate arrives from England. A pompous and arrogant man, he expects deference without doing anything to earn it. The magistrate’s attitude is contrasted sharply with that of John, a young man with Downs Syndrome, who measures people by their behaviour, not reputation. It takes a near tragedy at sea to show the magistrate who holds the better set of values

The Hungry Ocean Amazon CDN Price: $21.70 Amazon US Price: $22.75 The term fisherwoman does not exactly roll trippingly off the tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the world's only female swordfish boat captain, isn't flattered when people insist on calling her one. "I am a woman. I am a fisherman... I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl. If anything else, I am a thirty-seven-year-old tomboy. It's a word I have never outgrown." Greenlaw also happens to be one of the most successful fishermen in the Grand Banks commercial fleet, though until the publication of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, "nobody cared." Greenlaw's boat, the Hannah Boden, was the sister ship to the doomed Andrea Gail, which disappeared in the mother of all storms in 1991 and became the focus of Junger's book. The Hungry Ocean, Greenlaw's account of a monthlong swordfishing trip over 1,000 nautical miles out to sea, tells the story of what happens when things go right--proving, in the process, that every successful voyage is a study in narrowly averted disaster.

The Ice Hunters: A History of Newfoundland Sealing to 1914 Amazon CDN Price: $24.95 Amazon US Price: $24.95 The demand for oil to light and lubricate the industrial world changed the face of much of the planet. Newfoundland was part of this widespread transformation as migratory cod fishermen settled there in the early 1800['s to hunt seals. The seal fishery brought prosperity and growth and shaped this new society, but seal hunters and their families paid a heavy cost in lives lost and suffering experienced. The traditional oil industries were doomed with the discovery of mineral oils and the harnessing of electricity, and Newfoundland (along with other societies) faced painful adjustments while searching for alternative industries. However, while its place in the economy declined, the seal fishery left an indelible imprint on Newfoundland's culture and identity. The Ice Hunters examines the history of the Newfoundland seal fisher up to 1914, from hunters' lives on the ice floes to the consumer's demands in the marketplace.

The Newfoundland - The Purebreed Series Amazon CDN Price: $36.37 Amazon US Price: $24.47 This comprehensive treatament of the breed is the zenith of writing on this subject. Already translated into two other languages from the original Italian, the work has been a best seller in each language. The study of anatomy, history, and a novel way of looking at the axiom "for follows function" make this book one of a kind.

The Plains of Madness Amazon CDN Price: $27.65 Amazon US Price: $19.95 Winner of the Inaugural Percy James Award, Tom Moore's The Plains Of Madness is a superbly written novel set in the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Quebec, drawing parallels between the birth of a nation centuries before the present day and the plagued identity of history teacher searching for his humanity and meaning. An absorbing trip through time, history, and the recesses of the human soul, The Plains Of Madness is a most unique and satisfying read.

The Shipping News Amazon CDN Price: $25.90 Amazon US Price: $17.50 In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not attractive, he's not brilliant or witty or talented, and he's not the kind of person who typically assumes the central position in a novel. But Proulx creates a simple and compelling tale of Quoyle's psychological and spiritual growth. Along the way, we get to look in on the maritime beauty of what is probably a disappearing way of life.

The Viking Discovery Of America: The Excavation of a Norse Settlement in L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoun Amazon CDN Price: $33.96 Amazon US Price: $24.50 From 1961 to 1968, Helge Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine Ingstad, both archaeologists and acclaimed Viking scholars, conducted seven expeditions at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. The results of their excavations solved one of the world's greatest mysteries: the location of Vinland and the first European settlement in North America. The Viking Discovery of America combines a first-hand account of the Ingstads' groundbreaking discovery with a compelling history of Viking explorations. This beautifully illustrated volume describes how the authors worked from old Viking sagas, existing research, and their own hypotheses to piece together the story of a group of Vikings, who, faced with crowded conditions in their settlements in Greenland, decided to expand their horizons, eventually discovering a new territory. Readers will also discover fascinating information about navigation techniques, well-known and obscure Viking explorers, their journeys, and the eventual evacuation of their settlement. Full-color maps and photographs from the expeditions help to bring the text alive.

This Is Newfoundland Amazon CDN Price: $33.20 Amazon US Price: $23.95

Tilting, Newfoundland Amazon CDN Price: $27.27 Amazon US Price: $17.47 There is an almost elemental appeal in the rural fishing villages of Nova Scotia, Maine, and Newfoundland. Their intimate connection to nature, to the land, water, and (often harsh) weather; their reliance on ingenuity, on-hand materials, and craftsmanship; and their values of thrift and endurance serve as inspiration and as touchstones for those of us caught up in the hubbub of modern life. Tilting, Newfoundland is a celebration of all these virtues and an eclectic documentation of the buildings, landscape, and lifestyle of this remote community on a small island far off the Canadian coast. Through photographs, firsthand historical anecdotes, and delicate pencil drawings, author Robert Mellin presents a personal account of Tilting's houses, outbuildings, furniture, tools, fences, and docks, and, in the process, the way of life of Tilting.

To Go Upon Discovery: James Cook and Canada, 1758-1767 Amazon CDN Price: $25.19 Amazon US Price: $35.99 n/a

Waiting For Time Amazon CDN Price: $17.95 Amazon US Price: $17.95 Waiting for Time continues the chronicle begun in Random Passage. Readers of Bernice Morgans critically acclaimed first novel will recognize Thomas Hutchings, Mary Bundle, the members of the Andrews family and the rest of life in Cape Random, where people struggle to find their way in a life that offers chance as an only companion. Morgans first novel received excellent reviews, including the following from Bravo: a brilliantly imaginative piece, Random Passage is Morgans first novel, a wonderful promise of things to come Canadian best seller Winner of the Canadian Authors