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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday December 16 1889 Page Book review Books can make the perfect gift By VINCENT EGAN Do you find yourself devoid of in as the time for Christmas gift buying dwindles There is one ever dependable solution to this perennial problem Choose a new and interesting book Here are notes on some of the current season offerings to be found in bookstores A Day the Life of China edited by David Cohen Harper and Collins 224 pages On April 1989 some photographers of whom 60 were from the West shot photographs throughout the cities and towns of China for use in this ninth volume in a series of monumental publications that began with an Australian day 1981 By coincidence the student led democracy movement in China began during those 24 hours upon the death of an ousted Communist Party leader which gives an extra edge to this collection making it as gripping and fascinating as its eight heavyweight predecessors Collins partners in China subse quently withdrew from the project after Collins refused to delete cer tain photographs and texts Chronicle of the World edited by Jerome Burne Raincoast Book Distribution 290 pages A massive history of the world from 7 million BC onward writ ten in a journalistic you arethere style and arranged in chronological sequence This is a companion volume to last year s big selling Chronicle of the 20th Century Dance Canada by Max Wyman Douglas and 224 pages An absorbing and authoritative history of dance and modern and dancers in Canada by a Vancouver Pro vince columnist critic and clear ly diligent researcher ings to life some forgotten pioneers of this too often neglected art form as well as recounting the work of those who keep it alive against long odds Generously illustrated Benny Goodman and the Swing Era by James Lincoln Collier Ox ford University Press pages 95 An admiring and highly detailed narrative of the career of Goodman 190986 the clarinet playing orchestra leader whose publicity people dubbed him the King of Swing Collier demonstrates that for once there was some truth to a catch phrase Goodman was indeed at the top of the jazzier side of the big band field throughout a career that started when he was in short pants and continued until the end of his life He wasn t exactly Mr Nice Guy to judge from the frequent references to him by his musi cians as a tough task master but toughness was essential in the in tensely competitive music business Fxcellent as Collier s biography is it has one fortunate shortcoming the lack of a detailed chronological discography at least for the Good man orchestra s peak period from 1935 to Rhymes of the Midnight Sun A Robert Service Treasury Hill 191 pages 95 Service was the first poet and that many of us encountered in our elementary school days Here is a beautiful designed and thoughtful ly chosen collection of his work based on his expenences in the Yukon gold rush the First World War and his golden years in France A must for the prewar generation but any home that has youngsters should have Robert Service too Images from the Inside Passage by Victor Douglas and Mclntyre 144 pages Largely a compen dium of first rate photographs of Tlingit and Haida Indians of southeast Alaska taken between and 1910 by pioneer commer photographers Lloyd Winter and Percy Pond with an insightful foreword by Margaret B Blackman Satellite Images Photographs of Canada from Space text by Brian Banks Camden House Publishing pages 29 95 An extraordinary selection of large- format views of the Canadian land scape taken by the 5 satellite from km into orbit Odyssey In Time The Dinosaurs of North America by Dale A Russell University of Toronto Press pages 45 In this age of rapid and tragic tion of wildlife species who hasn t reflected upon the fate of the pre historic dinosaur It vanished ud the author suggests when a comet slammed into our planet million years ago Russell a curator at Ottawa National Museum of Natural Sciences which is associated in the tion of this remarkable volume has made the study of dinosaurs his life work and here he tells all why they developed from lizards how they existed one species had to keep moving just to maintain its balance when thev thrived the era their areas such as Alberta s badlands Eleanor Kish has supplied 15 detailed paintings that are among the book 135 invaluable On the Brink Endangered Species in Canada Western Pro ducer Books 192 pages 95 A joint project of several scientists this big format volume is a handsome yet alarming look at wildlife species that are facing ex tmction such as the onceabundant white beluga whale decimated by ingestion of some 15 toxic chemicals Leopard in the Afternoon by Christopher Ondaajte Lester and Orpen Dennys 217 pages The author a Bay Street financial executive has produced a beautifully illustrated and sen sitive account of a twoweek game- viewing safari to Tanzania Child Finder by Collin Max well and Allan Gould Prentice- Hall Canada pages The disappearance of a child is a constant source of anguish but never more so than at this season Colin Maxwell chosen vocation is finding missing usually abducted youngsters and here with prolific author Allan Gould he recounts details of his successes in re uniting families The Day They Took The Children by Ben Wicks Stoddart 160 pages 26 Half a century ago with the start of the Second World War British authorities put into action a long standing pro gram to evacuate 3 million children from London and other major to the relative safety of the surrounding countryside and even to Canada and the U S Noted cartoonist Ben Wicks who was among them assembled the per reminiscences of hundreds of them in his book No Time to Wave Goodbye and now in this ful illustrated sequel he presents many more such recollections What comes through is some feeling of the anguish that the parents and children felt at being separated at such a stressful time combined with the later sobering realization of the deaths of children 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