March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
Until the past few years, foreign entries into North America’s buoyant garden book market were almost exclusively British. Germany, which has a long and storied history of horticulture and plant breeding, was not well represented ... Read More »
W. P. Kinsella’s baseball novels belong in the Hall of Fame. But this collection of well-known baseball quotes and stories, of which Kinsella was the editor, generates about as much excitement as a late-season game ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
The Canadian passion for Formula 1 racing, largely dormant since Gilles Villeneuve’s fatal crash in 1982, was suddenly reawakened last year when a small, quiet, almost scholarly young Québécois made his spectacular debut at the ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
For a long time now, I’ve fretted over the inability of Canadians to develop a worthwhile literature of hockey. Occasionally, a good hockey book appears, of course, but we’ve never come close to either a ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
Most newspaper columnists know – and if they don’t, they ought to think again – that they deal in perishable goods, that words dished up for daily consumption aren’t for the ages. Newspaper columns are ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help
“Fly fishing is an inefficient method used for catching comparatively few fish. Its appeal is found in that paradox, one whose occasional rewards come with persistent, skilled labour and are valued all the more greatly ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
“Fly fishing is an inefficient method used for catching comparatively few fish. Its appeal is found in that paradox, one whose occasional rewards come with persistent, skilled labour and are valued all the more greatly ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
“Fly fishing is an inefficient method used for catching comparatively few fish. Its appeal is found in that paradox, one whose occasional rewards come with persistent, skilled labour and are valued all the more greatly ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
“Fly fishing is an inefficient method used for catching comparatively few fish. Its appeal is found in that paradox, one whose occasional rewards come with persistent, skilled labour and are valued all the more greatly ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
If the trend analyzers and marketing gurus are correct, the game of golf is starting an enormous worldwide growth surge. New golf courses are opening faster than the old ones can be converted into housing ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help