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The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
by Mowat, Farley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1970. First Amer. Edition. Near fine in cloth covered boards with map end sheets with dust staining to the top edge of the text block. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with minor soiling to the front and rear panels. 241 pages.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB00233
- Title
- The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
- Author
- Mowat, Farley
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Amer. Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1970
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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