BOOK REVIEW — Western wandering

Wilderness Wandering on Vancouver Island, by Walter Guppy. Published by Grassroots Publication, P.O. Box 94, Tofino, B.C. V0R 2ZO. 136 pages. $12.95 in book stores; $15 postpaid from publisher.

The book is mainly about cross-country treks and other episodes in connection with prospecting on Vancouver Island; some of the accounts appeared in an abbreviated form in the Odds `n’ Sods column of The Northern Miner. Guppy’s first book, “West Coast Ventures,” was published about four years ago.