As one of the first books I read on Quebec separatism, I found Desbarats's book the most helpful. Most, if not all, political writing is biased. Desbarats's sympathy for Levesque reveals itself quite clearly. However, I found the author's approach very helpful. Desbarat maintains probably the most sober account of Levesque's political life that I have read so far, in his easy to read journalistic writing style. Desbarat sets an easy to follow timeline of events and explains these political events clearly. As a history student, it is nice to read a book of such events without the dense style of writing that many historians use to mask their bias. I found the journalistic approach more helpful, especially when it came to forming my own opinions about historical events.

If you wish to understand the more sober side of Quebec separatism, then I would strongly recommend this book. If you wish to know more about the more militant side of Quebec separatism, I suggest "The Antagonist".

Note: All books mentioned are obviously from an anglophone point of view. If you read French, I suggest "Memoires" by Levesque himself.

This is a highly underrated anthology, exposing the diversity of Contemporary American Poetry with a dash of rock n' roll irreverency. This is the perfect book for that teen or twentysomething who thinks they don't like poetry!

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This is a great primer for anyone interested in the life and work of Canadian author Robertson Davies. It is extremely brief, however, and merely scratches the surface. This isn't a detailed, original work of criticism, but a summary of the man, his writings, and critical reactions to his work.

It;s as if the camera's were in the trees..the animals in their purity. Beautiful work by Mr. Lally, who has such a talent for capturing animals and making you stop and really look at the scene. what is striking about the photographs is realizing there actually were people with cameras only feet away..it amazes me. This book would have been much more appealing as a table type book had it been bound as a hard cover and perhaps made larger. Incredible photograpy.

This book is very good... it's got the real opinions of real girls instead of PhD's or "experts." I would definitely recommend this to any adolescent girl, and especially anyone who has a daughter.

I think that it was an okay book but it did noy have a couple of thing that I needed and that I was looking for

Second to None is a carefully researched and well-crafted account of the World War I experiences of the 58th Battalion, first raised in 1915 in response to demands for more soldiers as trench warfare became a vast dying ground for the youth of Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Mr. Shakleton's recounting of the training, parades, transfers, raids and major engagements allows the facts of numbers of deaths, shell shock victims, wounded and missing in action to convey to his readers the horror of the war to end all wars. He supplements the battalion's War Diary with letters, maps, information from interviews and his own reading and background to fill in details that the reader needs to understand the routines that surrounded the constant killing. There is also an oblique reference to the strange behaviour of one of the battalion's commanding officers. His sober, simple, unembellished and well organized prose is a counterpoint to the chaos of the trenches where every day men saw, heard and smelled death in scenes that haunted the survivors until their own deaths.

Any reader interested in the First Great War will want this account in their library for it allows one to experience life in the trenches 'up close and personal'.

One of the most difficult of achievements for a novelist is to truly convey the essence of life in another time but Theresa Kishkan's portrayal of life in the frontier country of the Nicola Valley of British Columbia at the turn of the twentieth century rings absolutely true. And anyone who has ever visited the Nicola Valley will smell again the scent of the air, feel the heat on their skin and hear the bird songs, so evocative is her language. A wonderfully accomplished book.

Ever wonder where the myth of the stalwart Mountie, righting wrongs and doing good, came from? After reading this book, I am pretty sure it started with the Mounties themselves. When the Canadian government created the North-West Mounted Police to maintain law and order in the largely unsettled West, the call went out for "men of good character." It's clear that James Morrow Walsh was that and more.

This book, written by a former Mountie, follows Walsh's career and Sitting Bull's in parallel tracks. It's a story of deceit and betrayal, and also of honour and decency. The bond between Walsh and Sitting Bull was never broken, and is shown under the most unlikely circumstances. At the same time, the behaviour of the much-maligned Sioux people demonstrates the full injustice of what was done to them by the governments of both the United States and Canada.

There are times when one person, or a very few people, can make a difference just by their own personal qualities. When the NWMP were the only law in the Canadian West, interpreting it as justly and fairly as they knew how, men like Walsh did just that. It's a shame the governments in Ottawa and Washington didn't make more of an effort to do so, too.