Michael Mann assserts that "Widespread, bad-faith assaults on science have no place in a functioning democracy." The question of climate change is widely accepted worldwide with only a few obvious exceptions. This leads us to wonder why do people want to defend a few billionaires and highly profitable corporations?

Tzeporah Berman's book is a seductively easy read. She treats us to her inside view of the barricades at Clayoquot Sound, mingling with Hollywood stars, and holding her own in corporate boardrooms. Along the way we can learn from her example and courage about how to proceed in solving the enormous problems facing humanity. We also can learn from her about the pointlessness of cynicism and demonization of those who disagree with us.

Whether you are involved with the environmental movement, health care, social justice or Occupy, this book is a must read. Tzeporah shows us what can be accomplished with humour, honesty, openness, and determination.

I had really high hopes for this book because it had so many interesting ingredients: Frederick Cook, the great impostor, Peary the arctic explorer whose claim to the North Pole is still being debated, Newfoundlanders in New York... as it turns out, much of the book consists of prose that might have come from a teenage girl's diary. The first half of the book is a long tedious build-up to not much happening in the second book. We do meet Peary and his wife in some unlikely historical fiction and that's about it.

Give the book a miss and either read some literature or some junk. This book is junk pretending to be literature.

I had my hopes up for this book and was disappointed. The characters and descriptions are simple enough that they offer no challenge, which is the case when you are tired or on a bus ride and want to read mindless junk.

However, as the story progresses there are a series of gratuitously nasty incidents with violent children running amok, domestic battles of an emotional sort, work-related betrayals, and so on.

There is far too much trite negativity in this book.

We used this book and also the Lonely Planet Spain guide together for 2 walks in Galicia. In both cases (Spindrift 2 and Mt Pindo) the information was out of date. The maps were just detailed enough to give us false confidence and we were misdirected both times. The recommended menu selection in the recommended restaurant in Camelle was awful.

This is a poor buy. Suggest you use the Spain book and get local topographic maps.