Walking On The Land
by Mowat Farley
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1552631672
- ISBN 13
- 9781552631676
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Key Porter Books. Fine. 2000. Hardcover. 1552631672 . A Fine blue Hardcover, gilt titles to the spine. Tight, bright & unmarked. First Edition. Decorative end papers. The DJ is clipped and in Very Good condition with some light creasing along the top edge. "Marking the 50th anniversary of "The People of the Deer", this book brings to life the plight of the Arctic's Ihalmuit, or Barrenground Inuit, a people almost wiped out by famine and epidemics." ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 208 pages; Box 67 .
Synopsis
Farley Mowat was born in Ontario in 1921. He served in World War II and spent the better part of two years in the Arctic before he began writing for a living in 1949. He is the author of thirty-seven books which combined have sold more than 14 million copies in 52 languages. He and his wife, Claire Mowat, divide their time between Ontario and Nova Scotia.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23225
- Title
- Walking On The Land
- Author
- Mowat Farley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1552631672
- ISBN 13
- 9781552631676
- Publisher
- Key Porter Books
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- 1552631672, Inuit
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Historical Fiction; Natives, Canadian/American;
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