THE LAST GREAT FRONTIERSMAN: THE REMARKABLE ADVENTURES OF TOM LAMB Leland Stowe. Markham (ON), PaperJacks, c1982, 1983. 253pp, paper, $3.95. ISBN 0-7701-0251-4. Grades 11 and up. Reviewed by Gerri Young. Volume 12 Number 2 1984 March Truly "a backwoods giant," Tom Lamb could and did do everything in his northern Manitoban wilderness. Extremely enterprising and courageous, he had been trapper, logger, teamster, musk-rat farmer, hunter, cattle rancher, bush pilot, airline owner, an avowed conser-vationist and environmentalist, and had an honorary Doctor of Law degree. Lamb was an unusually creative man who built up and put into the north country. He did not take from the North and then leave. He stayed and thought of new ways to benefit the land as well as himself. The Last Great Frontiersman will appeal to all those who long for the good old days and for life in the wilderness away from busy urban centers. However, surely there was someone who really knew Tom Lamb, and Canada, who could have written this story? Leland Stowe, a Pulitzer-prize winner, has piled laudatory fact upon fact upon fact; it may be good journalism but shows a lack of personal knowledge of the subject. Also, Stowe tells us that our Liberal prime minister during the thirties and forties was P.M. Bracken that Massey was "Governor" at the time and that MPs were "Dominion ministers." The author uses the word, "Dominion," which was dropped in 1949, throughout the book instead of federal or national. Gerri Young, Fort Nelson, BC.