Vic Baker, Book Reviews Editor

MEASURING MOTHER EARTH: HOW JOE THE KID BECAME TYRRELL OF THE NORTH. Heather Robertson. 2007. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, Ontario. 348 pp. ISBN 978-0-7710-7539-1. Hardcover, $34.99 (Can).

Fifty years after his death, we are presented with a new biography of geologist Joe Tyrrell. It is the third book-length biography, and is complemented by a PhD thesis and numerous other relevant publications. No other Canadian geologist has received this degree of biographical attention, but Tyrrell, while always in touch with the Earth through his ninety-eight years, is remembered not just as a geologist, but as...

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