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2 gruelling work $ mental Studies. g Lyle‘s courage to do is a good §piduedw0ial & The Rarest of & mats, Timeless & â€" Ackerman‘s b § Some time before it was popular totare about "the environâ€" § ment," a good while before everyone decided that it mattered, my father was teaching me to read the stories of tracks in the & snow. He also showed me how to enter into the silence of a * lake in northern Quebec and how to find wild blueberries, how é to survive in the wilderness. a g Recently, a good friend, Lyle Friesen, has been continuing this teaching. Today‘s column is dedicated to him: he has had the £ imagination to follow a dream, to work at what he cares about. } He has done extensive studies on bird populations, doing the Ackerman‘s book is a series of adventure â€" stories, sharing her travels around the world to places where rare spercies are still Samoy to be found. She visits with the people who live among them and know them, working their voices in around her own. Most poignant, perhaps, is her account of the places where the Monarch butterfly winters. it is difficult to read these pasâ€" sages without remembering that a harsh winter in Mexico this year killed millions of these butterflies in their breeding mmmmuamwump msmmwmhumnsmh .Let the sounds of classical and jazz sages without remembering that a harsh winter in Mexico this _ accessible language, for lay people to read. it records an appreâ€" enhance your dining experience! year killed millions of these butterflies in their breeding ciation for life and the journeys undertaken to see species % ground: which have become rare and valued. Solo piano performed by A hundred million monarchs migrate each year. Gliding, flapâ€" This is not a doom and gloom book. Ackerman writes about Immms ping, hitching rides on thermals like any hawk or eagle, they . what she calls three delegate animals, two endangered ecosysâ€" VIRG fly as far as 4,000 miles and as high as 2,000 feet, rivalling tems, and one endangered phenomenon (the migration of the the great animal migrations of Africa, the flocking of birds _ Monarch butterfly). SATWYSO"LY across North America. Occasionally, one will be bamboozled Ackerman says she always wanted to be an "adventuress," 5 p.m. â€" 10 p.m. by the jet stream and wind up in Mauritius or England. They _ but it took her a while to figure out what that meant, until she Fesorvations Mecommendad need only water and nectar to thrive, but they are sensitive _ decided that she wanted to travel the world, visiting with aniâ€" t to cold and must spend the winter somewhere warm or die. _ mals and people, recording the stories she happeried into: (,\ f‘) f‘-‘)‘ Nonâ€"fiction is a way of writing which more and more people _ Nature is indeed sacred and must be protected. We should PW â€" ',.&fid@;;‘ are discovering, both as writers and as readers. Canadians have all care urgently about the fate of our animals and ecosysâ€" e it Cmm nemmmarenrnrennmmnons always valued the documentary, which poet Dorothy Livesay tems, and should work hard in their behalf. But nature is called "the Canadian art form." Ackerman is a bestâ€"selling also great fun. * e American writer, but Canadians will recognize the form, the Ackerman‘s book conveys a sense of that fun and of the accounts of almost forgotten animals and their habitats. quirks of animalsâ€"and humansâ€"which make them interesting. 1 Ackerman writes in a personal, almost poetic style, including Judith Miller is associate professor of English at Renison Colâ€" a brief introduction to each section which is like a meditation. lege at University of Waterloo. A hundred million monarchs migrate each year. Gliding, flapâ€" ping, hitching rides on thermals like any hawk or eagle, they fly as far as 4,000 miles and as high as 2,000 feet, rivalling the great animal migrations of Africa, the flocking of birds across North America. Occasionally, one will be bamboozled by the jet stream and wind up in Mauritius or England. They need only water and nectar to thrive, but they are sensitive to cold and must spend the winter somewhere warm or die. 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