Book Guy: A Librarian in the Peace

by Howard Overend

Book Guy is unique. It's a librarian's story of getting books into the hands of rural school children and people in isolated places in the Peace River country and up the Alaska Highway. The story also tells how the mobile service began 50 years ago and traces-not without humour-the remarkable efforts of successive true-grit librarians to overcome the obstacles of poor working conditions, severe cold and the hazards of dust and ice and muddy roads.

288 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2001

Reviews

[William Pugsley · Rating 3 out of 5]

A wonderful view of northern places by way of the librarian. Interesting only so far as I grew up in the region and know or know of the places visited and talked about but it made me a little homesick for my hometown of Fort St. John.