Search Results: the legend of john hornby by whalley george

Laurentian Library, 1977. Book. Good.. Paperback. Covers are creased, interior has a name on first page else clean..

London: John Murray. VG+/VG+. 1962. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . 367pp . Tad of foxing to foreedge. Arctic Canada ca. 1910-1925. Unaccountably scarce. .

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, [1962]. First Edition of this “authoritative biography” of the English explorer John Hornby in which “this restless figure is re-created and related to his contemporaries with whom he was associated during his wanderings in the Barren Lands.” (Story p. 362) In Inheriting a Canoe Paddle: The Canoe in Discourses of English-Canadian Nationalism (2013), Misao Dean describes Whalley’s biography as being beautifully written and meticulously researched, and identifies it as one of the great texts of Canadian modernism. Hornby died tragically in the Barren Lands together with his young cousin and another young companion in 1927. 8vo. pp. xiv, 367, [3]. 6 maps on 2 folding sheets. 26 illus. on 10 double-sided plates. index. cloth (spine faded). dw. (tears to edges of dw.). elala5883