Running With Reindeer: Encounters in Russian Lapland

Roger Took's Running With Reindeer: Encounters in Russian Lapland (McArthur & Co., $18.95) is of interest because few of us have ever read a book on this subject. The same might be said of The Fellowship of Ghosts: A Journey Through the Mountains of Norway, by Paul Watkins (Simon & Schuster Canada, $36). By contrast, we all know bits and pieces about the Riviera but probably don't have the coherent overview found in Riviera: The Rise and Rise of the Cíƒ ´te d'Azur by Jim Ring (McArthur & Co., $39.95), a book whose most vivid parts centre on the years between the two world wars, when high society (which still existed) mingled comfortably with the demimonde (which is timeless).

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