Personally, I found this book to be tedious. It was too chopped up for my tastes. The plot seemed to go every where. Unless I missed something, the title was very misleading as to the content of the novel. However, the ending was hilarious and a good reward for the rest of the novel.

i think this book was one of the funniest i have ever read ever. i couldn't stop laughing. U gotta buy it and see for yourself

At just over 100 pages, William Robertson's biography of k.d. lang is an easy read and a concise account of her rise to fame up through her "Ingenue" release. Drawing heavily from both Canadian and American magazine articles, Robertson gives us a revealing look at this eccentric vocalist.

Speaking as a first-person witness to lang's early career, Robertson escorts us through the landscape that has shaped her direction thus far. Robertson touches on the events and people that have had a defining influence on lang's life, from her roots in Consort, Alberta through her training at Red Deer College, and her arrival on country music's doorstep. He briefly explores the mindset of traditional country music and relates lang's struggle for recognition within that framework, as well as her successful segue to the broader palatte of adult pop music.

As a very new fan who knew little of k.d. lang, I enjoyed this account of a unique woman whose single-minded tenacity has vindicated her undeniable talent. While the opus of k.d.'s career is far from over, her story so far is one of triumphant providence!

Some of vipond's arguments are flimsy and easily torn to shreds. While the writing has a good feel to it overall I found the book hard to swallow...

...This book is a sleeping tiger. Before I picked it up, I had had no clue about who the author was and only a slight hint about who the people of the North, the Eskimo are (which is an outdated term. The correct term is now Iniut). I read this book because I love to read (chances are you do too, if you are on this web page). And because this particular book sat in the forgotten part of my university's library. And because, I wanted to further my knowledge that I had about the Iniut. And finally because, its a big, long, heavy book. Big books either scare people away or mysteriously call the name of a potential reader. Me, being one of those readers, I read and read, to silence the book's calling, to give myself peace. So, in other words, I am not a student of the Arctic, nor of its people, but just an interested, lover of books.

In this book, Stefansson talks about his adventures in the North during the years between 1908 and 1912. His journey, taking place at that time period, is interestingly, subject to the culturally held beliefs of that time period. Thus, the book was written to and for the majority of those who made up the academic audience of that time, white, Christian men. This being so, even through Stefansson comes across as being a rather progressive social thinker, he clearly caters to this audience.

Looking beyond that relatively small fault, that may turn off many of today's readers, the author puts together an informative book. Although the course of events that are described as each day passes to the next, the author did not write the book in the style of a traditional journal. This makes it hard to keep a mental track of the events that take place. Nonetheless, the book achieves its objective.

Aside from describing his adventure on the North Arctic Coast near the U.S.-Canadian boarder, which range from feeding the sled dogs foods that they won't eat, eating caribou hides dipped in seal oil to fight off starvation, his relationships with his Iniut friends and workers, to the thrill of visiting an isolated village, he tells how some of the Iniuts that he met in the villages that he went to, did not know that he was a white man until he told them. In catering to his audience, which I talked about, Steffansson goes into great detail and length about the effects of the "new religion," Christianity, has had on the native people of the Arctic; along with the other foreign influences of the white men in the North.

This book, especially because of its age, should be read with a light heart and an open mind. Even so, I would still recommend this book as a look at the past, to anybody who has an interest in the Arctic and its natives. Aside from Stefansson's above average writing, there are many nice black and white photos of the landscapes of the North and its beautiful people. At the end this of book, there's Dr. Rudolph Anderson's field report on the wildlife of the Arctic. He happened to accompany Steffansson on his trip North. But since Anderson was a zoologist and Steffansson, an ethnologist, they went their separate ways to tend to their separate businesses, only keeping in touch once every couple of months. Both were sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Over all, its a good book. It is a sleeping tiger.

I found this book to be very helpful for researching Margaret Atwood's book "The Handmaid's Tale." Ms. Stein is very knowledgable on Margaret Atwood and her works, and her book was well organized so that I found the information I needed quite easily. Thanks to this book I will be able to achieve an A on my senior paper!

The Military Nurses of Canada is a 3-volume compilation of personal recollections of Canadian military nurses. Included is a history of the beginning of Canadian military nursing during the 1885 North West Rebellion. The books are edited by Edith Landells, a military nurse during World War Two. She used personal interviews and War Diaries at the National Archives, Ottawa, Canada and relied on word of mouth to reach military nurses in every Canadian province. Co-published with Addison Graphics Ltd.,Volume One was released in 1995, the 50th anniversary of the end of World War Two. Volumes Two and Three were released in 1999 and carry additional recollections and historical reports from all eras of Canadian military nursing.Volumes 2 and 3 add over 800 pages to Canadian military nursing with hundreds of photos.

This is a collection of academic papers on various stages of Canadian naval history. While each paper examines a particular era of Canadian naval history, and a specific issue in that era (for example, the creation of the Royal Canadian Navy under Borden), this is not a book for someone looking for a good overview of the history of Canada's maritime forces.

WELL I LIKE STEPHEN KING BUT THIS ONE WASENT ALL THAT IT WAS LONG AND DIDENT HAVE ANY THING TO IT I THOUGHT PET CEMETERY WAS MUCH BETTER BUT IM NOT SORRY I READ IT.

Peterson's guides are usually exceptionally helpful, but this one has distinct limitations. It presents brief narrative data (usually one short paragraph) on 178 boarding schools and 78 summer programs in the U.S. and Canada. Each school has the narrative data repeated in English, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Chinese, all on one page, and followed up by 19 graphical icons to give additional data (dress code?; student-computer ratio?;boys:girls?; percentage of international students?). The icons have to be memorized, or the reading is very slow going. Clearly designed for foreign readers, it is less useful to US readers than other boarding school guides.