Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Revised Edition. 8vo. 427 pp. Trade paperback format. Light rubbing on the corners with a faint crease on the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates and maps. The Contents are: The Forerunners; The Ice Seas; Henry Hudson's Fateful Voyages; The Black Winter of Jens Munk; The Venturesome Voyage of Captain James; French Guns Amongst the Ice; The Marble Tomb; Of Whales and Ice; Winter Without End; The Vanished Ships; The Fate of Franklin; The Almost Eskimo; and The Passage West..

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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.

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Bookseller: W. Fraser Sandercombe (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 223759
Title: ORDEAL BY ICE - The Top of the World
Author: Mowat, Farley
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Edition: First Revised Edition
ISBN 10: 0771066260
ISBN 13: 9780771066269
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart
Place of Publication: Toronto
Date Published: 1973
Size: 8vo
Keywords: northern exploration; arctic; polar regions; canadian author;
Bookseller catalogs: History - Canada; History - Exploration;

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