Review in the Globe and Mail

Some quotes from Charles Wilkins' review of The End of the River in the Globe and Mail, January 24, 2009:

"The End of the River is a brilliant and instructive book, alive with the author's seditious intelligence, his inner compulsions and restlessness, the lot of which are wedded to his literal journey in a way that recalls the travel writing of one of Harvey's heroes, Sir Richard Burton."

"Brian Harvey shows a . . . fascination and deftness with language and its effects, and with the memorable luminescence of a story well told."

"Harvey's book sweeps across continents and oceans, taking us to hand-wringing conservation conferences in Europe, to his home river — the Fraser — in British Columbia, to the fish hatcheries and markets of the Far East — visiting in the process seedy Thai hotels, Amazonian outposts and Brazil's raucous Carnaval."

"A freewheeling and vividly written essay on the mysteries and longings of what it is to be human in a world of cynicism and loss — and more significantly, what it is to be hopeful, to persevere, in the search for redemption and beauty."