There are travel books, and then there are travel books! While Rory Stewart would take umbrage at someone calling him a “travel writer”, that is what he is, if understood as someone who writes about people as much as he writes about places. While not as seasoned a...
Original Highways The title of the book is surely apt, for the earliest means of travel in this great land we call Canada, was the canoe, gliding across bodies of water, usually rivers, sometimes lakes, for purposes of commerce or war. The earliest explorers, starting...
THE GREAT LEVELER Just when you thought you knew just about everything having to do with economic inequality, along comes a book whose title at first blush appears highly implausible, if not outrageous. The world could be considered to have enjoyed relatively even...
I can’t remember ever having read two books in succession with overlapping themes which, furthermore, were a joy to read! There was no guarantee at the outset that two works on essentially globalization by two academics, one of whom is a Nobel laureate, would be...
The author has a reputation for being somewhat provocative, as he was with “The Rational Optimist”, where he attempted to rebut some of the arguments of the climate doomsayers. In his most recent offering, while no less optimistic about the future of...
We Canadians take pride in certain things, hockey being one. Technological accomplishments is not something that comes readily to mind, though we can claim the inventor of the telephone as one of ours, as can Americans. But to have not one, but two individuals, come...
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