Measuring Mother Earth: How Joe the Kid became Tyrrell of the North
by Robertson, Heather
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0771075391
- ISBN 13
- 9780771075391
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About This Item
Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart, 2007. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; light wear to spine extremes; some light scratches to dust jacket; otherwise very minimal wear; One of Canada's first scientific explorers, Joseph Burr Tyrrell began his career in the late 19th century by surveying the Rocky Mountains on foot and mapping remote northern rivers from a birchbark canoe; he ended it at the dawn of the Atomic Age, flying across the wilderness in bush planes. Among his many accomplishments, Tyrrell discovered Canada's first dinosaur. Albertosaurus, and an Ice Age glacier he named Keewatin. He risked his own and his companions' lives charting the Dubawnt and Kazan river networks west Hudson Bay, and rescued the maps and records of Canada's great geographer, David Thompson, from oblivion. After he failed to find gold in the Klondike, Tyrrell gambled on buying a gold mine in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, and won millions.
Synopsis
Heather Robertson has written for Canadian magazines for forty years and has written more than a dozen books, including two award-winners: the novel Willie: A Romance (which won the Canadian Authors Association Fiction Prize and the Books in Canada Best First Novel Award) and the biography Driving Force (which won the National Business Book Award). She lives in King City, Ontario.
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- Bookseller
- Werdz Quality Used Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008082
- Title
- Measuring Mother Earth: How Joe the Kid became Tyrrell of the North
- Author
- Robertson, Heather
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0771075391
- ISBN 13
- 9780771075391
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, ON
- Date Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 348
- LCCN
- 2010534243
- Keywords
- SCIENCE GEOLOGISTS GEOLOGY CANADA BIOGRAPHY PROSPECTORS EXPLORERS CANADIAN NORTHWEST DISCOVERY EXPLORATION SIGNED COLLECTIBLE DINOSAURS ALBERTA
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- 0 g
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