<p Richard Pope, author of <i Me n Len: Life in the Haliburton Bush, 1900-1940</i and the voyageur epic <i Superior Illusions</i , is a recently retired professor of Russian literature and culture at York University and a long-standing member of the Ontario Ornithological Club and the Ontario Field Ornithologists. He and his wife, Felicity, live in Cobourg, Ontario.</p