Last-mi nute
gifts for
bookish types

WHILE SOME readers are no doubt sitting back rather
smugly right now, secure in the fact that Christmas presents
have not only been selected but bought and wrapped, the
majority of us are probably facing the same last-minute,
gift-giving quandary we inflict on ourselves every year.

You'll therefore be relieved to
know that there actually exists a
place where something special can
be found for everyone on your
Yuletide list: the local bookstore.

MIKE
STEELE

book reviewer

This week and next, BOOKS
NOW will offer thumbnail-sketch
reviews of books for all ages and
interests that could be the perfect
stocking-stuffer solution to your
problems (stockings not included).

For fans of the off-beat and the
decidedly weird, Dougias Adams,
author of The Hitch Hiker’s Guide
To The Galaxy, has a fantastically
bizarre new offering, The Long
Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul
(Stoddart; 246 pp.; $23.95 in
hardcover).

Adams’ strange brand of humor
is worn this time around by Dirk
Gently of the Dirk Gently Holistic
Detective Agency, an unlikely
sleuth petrified of the contents of
his own fridge, who reluctantly
finds himself working for a client
who is convinced that he is about
to be murdered by a scythe-
wielding monster with a link to the
ancient Norse gods.

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Is he right? Does detective Dirk
solve his fridge problem? The Long
Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul not
only has the answers to these
compelling questions in great gift
form but the recipient should be
grateful enough to fet you borrow
itin January.

Outdoor enthusiasts face a
bewildering choice this year, given
the profusion of excellent coffee
table books out there, but here are
two suggestions that might simplify
things a bit.

Surely there is no more beautiful
a book available on the natural
wonders of a Canadian region
than Pat and Rosemary Keough’s
sumptuous, large-format book,
The Nahanni Portfolio (Stod-
dart/Nahanni Production; 179 pp.;
$65).

Printed on the heaviest stock of
any coffee table work I’ve seen
this year, this is a publicist’s
dream. The Nahanni Portfolio
would be a gift that would be
treasured for years to come.

Also a very striking work for the
quality and subject of its
photographs is Candace Savage's
Wolves (Douglas & Mc!ntyre; 159
pp.; $35). This too is a large-format
book, featuring an incredible
gallery of wolf photographs whose
diversity is breath-taking.

Wolves is the most impressive
book on canis lupus published to

date and sure to elicit a chorus of
‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ from everyone
who sees it. .

The next book is the BOOKS
NOW Canadian History Award
winner of the year (or would be if
we had such a prize): Lords of the
Line by West Vancouver’s writing
team, David Cruise and Alison
Griffiths.

Lords of the Line (Viking; 486
pp.; $25) is a definitive, anec-
dote-packed history of the Cana-
dian Pacific Railway and the men
who not only created it but used
(and abused) its enormous power.

Despite the efforts of other his-
torians — such as Pierre Berton
with The National Dream and The
Last Spike — never before has this
intimate and interesting a book
been written on the politics,
greed, vanity and manipulation
that surrourded the CPR and its
top executives.

From documented evidence that
the CPR bought federal! elections
(and a prime minister) to the true
account of how one company

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