Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Tough Transitions: Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada WILL FERGUSON. Canongate, $14.95 paper (368p) ISBN 1-84195-652-X

Humorist Ferguson (Why I Hate Canadians) offers an appealing, brisk account of his many travels in his native land, from the "England as it never really existed" veneer of Victoria to the "certain dignified ugliness" of Newfoundland moose. The title story, in which Ferguson has his limbs and his ego massaged at a Saskatchewan health spa, perfectly represents the book's twin charms: Ferguson's comic cynicism, and his descriptions of intriguing events and individuals tied to the places he visits. In this tale, the …