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WILSON, John
Napoleon Publishing, 2001. 72p. Illus. Gr. 4-7. 0-929131-71-7. Hdbk. $18.95
Norman Bethune has been heralded as one of Canada's heroes even though most of the recognition came after his death in China in 1938. Bethune, the son of an Ontario preacher, was always seeking adventure of one sort or another even as a young child. This biography, by John Wilson (who has also written a young adult book about Bethune - Norman Bethune: A Life of Passionate Conviction {XYZ, 1999}), traces Bethune's life from his birth in March 1890 in Gravenhurst, Ontario to his untimely death in China in 1938. Each page focuses on a particular aspect of Bethune's life - …