"Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones." Benjamin Disraeli........."Reflections From A Broken Mirror" further pursues in short stories a long and varied life of the author as did his "Tales From The Underbrush" book seri

"More Tales From The Underbrush" continues the true stories told in "Tales From The Underbrush"; being those of a young exploration geologist and his sometimes life-threatening adventures in the natural wilderness; but also in this book, within the urban wilderness of moral failure.

The author is a semi-retired Canadian exploration geologist, currently an artist and writer. His work as a geologist has taken him to many remote, frontier areas of the world, regions that collectively might be referred to as "the bush," hence the reference in the title to "underbrush." The life of an exploration geologist, while tremendously exhilarating, can at the same time, and certainly during the middle part of the last century when most of the book's content takes place, be described as one of hardship, deprivation, and danger. The process of exploration in wildly varied terrains and...