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Heart of the Yukon: a Natural and Cultural History of the Mayo Area.

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HEART OF THE YUKON: A NATURAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE MAYO AREA. Edited by LYNETTE BLEILER, CHRISTOPHER BURN and MARK O'DONOGHUE. Mayo, Yukon: Village of Mayo, 2006. ISBN 0-9780263-0-6. (Available from Village of Mayo, PO Box 160, Mayo, YT YOB 1M0; mayo@northwestel.net) 138 p., maps, b & w and colour illus., bib. Softbound. Cdn$25.00.

This attractively produced popular level book provides a thorough review of the natural and cultural history of the Mayo region in central Yukon Territory. The editors, Lynette Bleiler, Christopher Burn, and Mark O'Donoghue, who are also the book's main contributors, use their intimate knowledge of the region to bring together a vast amount of information of interest to Yukon residents, specifically those from Mayo, and to the region's many scientific researchers, resource managers, conservationists, naturalists, amateur historians, and tourists. The book was produced by the village of Mayo to commemorate its centennial in 2003. Readers will immediately see that this is a book focused almost exclusively on the Mayo area and written primarily for the people of Mayo, or at least for people who have some prior knowledge of the region. It is not a book for those who need more general information on the Yukon or want to read about the history or environments of northern Canada or the circumpolar North as a whole. However, the narrow theme should not be viewed as a negative trait. Rather, its focus makes this book a great resource for anyone who needs information on this small region of central Yukon without getting lost in a regional overview of wider...