Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1974. Soft cover. Very Good. Berthier, Marc G.P.. Large softcover, white wrappers very slightly and uniformly browned, color-illustration at top front of Mowat's head and dog in colorful ripples of water, praise on back wrapper from Montreal Star, Montreal Gazette, Victoria Times and others, 264 browned pages, illustrations by Marc G.P. Berthier throughout. Two creases down bottom front left, light wear to front tips, spine lightly askew, light crease near top back tip. Near Very Good.

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Farley Mowat was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1921, and grew up in Belleville, Trenton, Windsor, Saskatoon, Toronto, and Richmond Hill. He served in World War II from 1940 until 1945, entering the army as a private and emerging with the rank of captain. He began writing for his living in 1949 after spending two years in the Arctic. Since 1949 he has lived in or visited almost every part of Canada and many other lands, including the distant regions of Siberia. He remains an inveterate traveller with a passion for remote places and peoples. He has twenty-five books to his name, which have been published in translations in over twenty languages in more than sixty countries. They include such internationally known works as People of the Deer , The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be , Never Cry Wolf , Westviking , The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float , Sibir , A Whale for the Killing , The Snow Walker , And No Birds Sang , and Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey . His short stories and articles have appeared in The Saturday Evening Post , Maclean’s , Atlantic Monthly and other magazines. From the eBook edition.

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Bookseller: Callaghan Books South (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 31479
Title: The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
Author: Mowat, Farley
Illustrator: Berthier, Marc G.P.
Format/Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0771065876
ISBN 13: 9780771065873
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
Place of Publication: Toronto
Date Published: 1974
Keywords: Humor Science Literature-Canadian
Bookseller catalogs: Humor; Science;

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