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John Clarke: Explorer of the Coast Mountains Lisa Baile Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2012. 287 pp. $29.95 paper.
For over a century, the Coast Mountains have drawn British Columbians, through both gaze and gait, to embrace the rugged peaks for which they are known. And, from the exploratory expeditions of the Mundays in the first half of the twentieth century to the ski descents of Trevor Peterson and Eric Pehota in the 1990s, these mountains have served as the landscape upon which several high-profile mountaineers have made their names and livelihoods. With John Clarke: Explorer of the Coast Mountains, Lisa Baile provides a biography of a man who was drawn to the Coast Mountains to a degree that perhaps no other British Columbian has been, and who gained a rather limited fame and livelihood from that embrace. His is a tale that deserves to be known.