Albert Braz, Apostate Englishman: Grey Owl the Writerand the Myths. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2015.190 pages. ISBN 9780887557781. $27.95 paperback.Albert Braz's book is certainly a surprise. It is a read that challenges not only what we know about Grey Owl, but also what we think we know about Grey Owl. It is scholarly that challenges our own perception of identity and our relationship to others.Braz's book is a thorough project that examines Grey Owl. Unlike many other books on this figure, he examines Grey Owl's first, and then his persona. Through numerous quotations and references from Grey Owl's writings as well as Anahareo's books and archival data, Braz argues that those important conservation efforts Grey Owl initiated in the early 20th century, were shadowed - or too quickly forgotten - after the reveal of Grey Owl's English heritage. The author writes that we read texts not for the author, and yet seem much more interested in the historical figure than in the writings he produced. Indeed, they frequently judge him as a person, and as a writer, without even deigning to read his work (p. 91).Although many Canadians certainly have an opinion of Grey Owl as the epitome of someone gone Indian, Braz calls for a second look. He emphasized that we need to look at Grey Owl's his nature writing and at his efforts at conservation: these were largely successful and did indeed bring both attention to the protection of beaver and other wildlife in the early 20th century in Canada. In that sense, Braz brings our attention to the humanity of Grey Owl. He does not condone or defend him, but he does place a mirror before the reader and argues that the only reason why the public was so outraged and betrayed - many still are - at Grey Owl's deception is due to the fact that the man committed cultural apostasy. He rejected the civilized, Euro-Canadian identity that many were advantaged to have (or wished to have) at that time. He rejected White privilege for the seemingly lower way of life. What specifically troubles people the most about this Englishman's Indian identity is that Archie Belaney's transformation into Grey Owl is precisely that he favoured Indigenous ways over European ones. That is something many of his critics can neither understand nor forgive. Thus, they accuse him of cultural (p.172). Cultural appropriation involves the exploitation of cultures of less privileged groups by dominant groups often without an understanding of their history or way of life. …