Reviews

The Wilderness Cookbook: A Guide to Good Food on the Trail

By Bonnie McTaggart, Jill Bryant, Chum McLeod, illus.

A camping trip is like a party: the better the planning, the more fun it is. Food is central. When roughing it, especially on canoe trips, mealtime can be the silver lining. All your clothes ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Rebel Life: The Life and Times of Robert Gosden, Revolutionary, Mystic, Labour Spy

By Mark Leier

The common complaint that Canadian history is boring is understandable considering the endless supply of books that recount the exploits of a small group of elite politicians, businessmen, and military leaders.Fortunately, a growing number of ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Betting the House: Winners, Losers and the Politics of Canada’s Gambling Obsession

By Brian Hutchinson

This is a polemic against government-sponsored gambling in Canada. Author Hutchinson, whose 1998 book on the Bre-X scandal, Fool’s Gold: The Making of a Market Fraud, wowed critics, tells a compelling tale of workers gambling ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Marginalia: A Cultural Reader

By Mark Kingwell

For any Canadian who reads about culture or politics, University of Toronto philosophy professor Mark Kingwell is a household name. From his essays on television in Saturday Night, to his cultural columns in Adbusters, to ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Crazy Dave

By Basil Johnston

Crazy Dave suffers a massive identity crisis as it is neither a memoir nor a native studies reference, though it purports to be both. Author Basil Johnston tells the story of David McLeod (Dave) and ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century

By Modris Eksteins

Modris Eksteins, a history professor at the University of Toronto, and author of the acclaimed and controversial Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age, tells both his personal story ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The Closer We Are to Dying

By Joe Fiorito

Joe Fiorito’s The Closer We Are to Dying is a very good book about people who are far from perfect. It covers the last 20 days in his father’s life, 20 days by the bedside ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Desire in Seven Voices

By Lorna Crozier, ed.

The concept of Desire in Seven Voices is a compelling one: Governor General’s Award-winning poet Lorna Crozier has brought together seven well-known Canadian women writers of vastly different ages and backgrounds, and asked them to ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The Desire of Every Living Thing: The Search for Home

By Don Gillmor

Don Gillmor, author of four children’s books and winner of four National Magazine Awards, uses the stock feature of much biography – the secrecy/disclosure dynamic – as the start for exploring his ancestral past. The ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Jack: The Story of Jack McClelland, the Canadian Publisher

By James King

We’re not much for statuary in this country. Oh, we’ve raised prime ministers to plinths and the odd soldier, we’ve bronzed some explorers and even Gretzky. Maybe if there were a lady called Liberty in ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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The Wilderness Cookbook: A Guide to Good Food on the Trail

Rebel Life: The Life and Times of Robert Gosden, Revolutionary, Mystic, Labour Spy

Betting the House: Winners, Losers and the Politics of Canada’s Gambling Obsession

Marginalia: A Cultural Reader

Crazy Dave

Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century

★ The Closer We Are to Dying

Desire in Seven Voices

The Desire of Every Living Thing: The Search for Home

★ Jack: The Story of Jack McClelland, the Canadian Publisher

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