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BOOK REVIEW

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otherwise), when. the price
tags on. big ticket. books
don’t look: quite so intimi-
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sh give as gifts. .°

‘Visual Journeys. Roloif Beny.

_ Wouglas & Mcintyre) $50.'A top

_ Of. the ‘line ‘memorial. to’ one ‘of |
Canada’s world-class , photogra-.”

“phers,. published: on “the “tenth
“anniversary of. his death, Born. in
Medicine Hat;.Beny was driven to.
: explore and photograph the most
exotic places. and: people in the
world, Superb pictures, of. course,

and informative texts by art histori-_
an Mitchell ‘Shelby .Crites,' Jeffrey
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:author.Lesley Blanch. .*.
> Eagle Transforming. Uli Steltzer
‘and-Robert ‘Davidson. (Douglas
.& MeIntyre/Washington) | $45,
: Definitely ; not:a-rehash of. last
-year's The Eagle of Dawn photo-
» record of the great Haida sculptor’s
» work. Ulli Steltzer’s’ black: and
white photos form a portrait of the
artist «.“at work,” conveying the
transformation". of natural matter
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of: sculpture “as'a‘ process rather,”

“than‘a finished monument. Robert:
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the subject of masks. (See below). -

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Native cultures of the Pagifie
Northwest raised mask-making to a
high art that still has power today,
as this collection of masks by con-
temporary shows. Dramatic pho-
tographs and interesting commen-
tary by the artists themselves,

The Good Company. An
Affectionate History of the Union
Steamships. ‘Yom Henry,
(Harbour Publishing) $32.95,
From 1889 to 1959, the Union
Steamship Company was B.C.'s
unofficial navy; it held the scat-
tered settlements of this rugged
deeply fjorded coastline together
und connected them tothe world
outside, Sooke writer Tom Henry
catches the real flavor of the Union
days by mixing history and ‘ance-
dotes about many of the colorful
characters who. sailed under the
Company -ensign. A great rend,
with lots of wonderful historical
photographs,

Aurora, The Mysterious Northera
Lights. Candace Savage.

(Greystone Books) $29.95, This is:

one of those weird great books you

treasure. Prolific wildlife writer

.Candace Savage turns her focus on
“Canada's major meteorological
mystery in a collection of ecrie
‘photographs, historical engravings

and: fascinating (ext. The Lights, -

occasionally visible as far south as
Los Angeles only rarely appear to
us southerners, but I saw their
-ghostly white echoes over. Mt.

Sons. Mark Zuehike (Whiteeap
Books) $14.95. Okanagan-raised
Zuchike grew up on tales of the
antes of the “black sheep" sons of
good British families who were
sent out to the “colonies”
(Australia, South Africa and
Canada) to make something of
themselves or simply go to Hell
where they could no longer embar-
russ their respectable relations,
Amid the colorful tales of trae
“remittance men”. (and the odd
remittance woman) who were paid
to stay: out of England, Zuchlke
also chronicles the experimental
agricultural communities, lke
‘Wallachin, in B.C, dreamed up by
ruthless speculators and founded
by British eniigrants. trying to
recreate an idealized sural English
“shire culture” ina wild land.
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