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Voyages/ Canada's Heritage Rivers
Edited by Lyn Noel
Breakwater Press, St. John's Nfld.
197 pp. $50 HC $35 paper.
ISBN 1-55081-099-5
Review by MICHAEL PEAKE --
Che-Mun Editor
Canoelit Home Page
The Canadian Heritage Rivers System has been growing slowly - like a great tree - which is probably a healthy metaphor as long as you can keep those people with the chain saws away.
This book celebrates the ten years of achievements that have seen some 30 rivers designated as a heritage river - but not protected. Voyages is something of a great and well-illustrated report on these accomplishments. Various writers are featured including David Pelly, James Raffan and Hap Wilson, who also contributes drawings.
There are many superb photos which add to the thoroughness of the book. Nevertheless it does have the "feel" of a report as opposed to a book. There are a lot of agencies and groups involved and they all get mentioned.
Lyn Noel has done a great job of assembling a well-deserved tribute to many of Canada's great rivers. Voyages is a worthy resource and a valuable record of what was - and what can still be.
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