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Article: FREE SPIRITS: PORTRAITS FROM THE NORTH.(Book review)
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- September 1, 2009
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FREE SPIRITS: PORTRAITS FROM THE NORTH. By BERN WILL BROWN. Toronto, Ontario: Novalis Press, 2007. ISBN 978-2-89507-900-2. 146 p., b&w illus., colour plates. Softbound. Cdn$18.95.
For those who read and enjoyed Brown's previous book, Arctic Journal: A Fifty Year Adventure in Canada's North (1999), also published by Novalis, his new book, though smaller and slimmer, will come as a welcome addition to northern libraries. Whereas Arctic Journal chronicled Bern Will Brown's five decades of travel and living in northwestern Canada, Free Spirits presents 22 short stories focused largely on northern characters that Brown (rather an impressive northern character himself) ...