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Father’s Day Books

Scratching your head trying to figure out what to get your father for Father’s Day this Sunday? Well stop racking your brain, Dundurn is here to help!

Have a father who’s a history buff? How about getting him Lake Erie Stories: Struggle and Survival on a Freshwater Ocean by Chad Fraser, which takes a fresh look at the history – from the earliest explorations of French adventurers to the rumrunners of the Prohibition era - of what may be the most colourful of all of the Great Lakes. Or perhaps Scottish history is more his thing and he would enjoy receiving a copy of Lucille Campey’s An Unstoppable Force: The Scottish Exodus to Canada; essential reading to those wishing to understand why the Scots came to Canada and enormousness of their achievements.

For the father who likes to travel there’s To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey Through West Africa in which author Rick Antonson chronicles his travels in Senegal and Mali by train, four-wheel drive, camel, and foot and delivers an armchair experience that will linger in the mind long after the last page is read. For the father that likes to kick back at the cottage and enjoys nature there’s Lake of the Old Uncles in which author Gerard Kenney takes the reader along the route that led him to build a lone cabin on the small and inaccessible Lake of the Old Uncles.

Looking for fiction? Then Twelve Trees by J.D. Carpenter, a literary spin-off from the Campbell Young Mysteries, and The Postman’s Round  by Denis Theriault, a tragicomic story full of twists and turns, are for you. And finally, for Dads’ that lean towards mysteries there’s the brand new Jack Taggart mystery Angel in the Full Moon by Don Easton.

From all of us at Dundurn – Happy Father’s Day! 

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