Some 500 photographs and four full color plates adorn the most recent contribution to photographic documentation of one of the most spectacular places of the world.

The Canadian Rockies.

"Rails in the Canadian Rockies", by Adolf Hungry Wolf is a 368 page volume attractively bound in fabric, and is almost entirely devoted to Canadian Pacific and CP Rail operations in the Rocky Mountains and the foothills.

Photographs from early practitioners of the art are featured, as well as more recent ones like Nicholas Morant, a legend and a contemporary-like Pooh-Bah, "both acting and elect, all rolled into one".

The author also contributes his own camera work. Born in Germany of Swiss and Hungarian parents, Hungry Wolf has adopted the customs of his wife's people, the Blood Tribe of the Blackfoot Nation.

While some captions of illustrations form a text in themselves, the photographs are arranged to follow a geographical pattern through the territory bounded by the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers, Kicking Horse, and Crow's Nest Passes and the prairie.

The book contains a number of essays written by veterans for the book or selected from earlier records and publications. "Rails in the Canadian Rockies" instills an impression of the magnitude of railway operations in that region.