THE MEN WITH WOODEN FEET: THE SPANISH EXPLORATION OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. Kendrick, John. Toronto, NC Press, cl985, 1986. 167pp, paper, $9.95, ISBN 0-920053-8S-8. CIP Post-Secondary Reviewed by John Harkness Volume 14 Number 6 1986 November John Kendrick is a retired professional engineer from British Columbia who has always been interested in the history and cultural background of his province and its native people. He has combined these interests with an enthusiasm for ships and the sea and a capacity with Hispanic documentation to put together this monograph on the exploits of the first Europeans to reach the Pacific Northwest. These first Europeans were Spaniards; Perez in 1774, Quadra in 1775. Their purpose was to find the mythical Northwest passage, finally disproved by Galiano's circumnavigation of Vancouver Island in 1792. According to oral tradition, the barefoot natives encountered by the explorers thought these shod Spaniards had "wooden feet." Hence Kendrick's title. I agree with Donald Cutler's analysis that "this book is a change of pace-kaleidoscopic, at times personal, speculative and partisan, but novel in its approach." It is a book mainly for coastal dwellers of British Columbia, but quite a lot of fun to read. Kendrick includes several pages of photographs of contemporary portraits and drawings of his Spanish heroes and some of their native Nootka acquaintances. As an Ontario reader, I could have benefitted from more and clearer maps than the three included. There is an extensive bibliography, as Kendrick asserts in the beginning that "This book is an arrangement of things discovered by others, not only native tribes, animals and trees, unknown islands, bays and rivers discovered by Spanish explorers but also records in the form of documents, maps, and artifacts discovered by historians and scientists whose works are recorded in the bibliography. . . ." Most of the Spanish sources are found unpublished, in archives in Mexico and Spain. The author also adds a sixteen-page appendix at the end of his book. This is in the form of a dictionary of vocabulary of the Nootka with the English and Spanish translations. John Harkness, Emery C.I, North York, Ont.