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Mowat, Farley BARREN LANDS: People of the Deer; The Desperate People; The Snow Walker
Toronto Seal Books 1980 Later Printings Paperback Very Good
288, 222, 209 pp. All three books have light edge and corner wear; Snowwalker has some creasing on the spine; the other two have uncreased spines; no interior markings. PEOPLE OF THE DEER: The Chapters are: The Why and the Wherefore; Into the Barrenlands; The Intruders; The Children; The Lifeblood of the Land; Under the Little Hills; Feast and Famine; Of Houses and Tongues; Eskimo Spring; These Are Their Days; The Boy and the Black One; The Shape of the Law; Kakumee; The Breaker of the Law; Stone Men and Dead Men; From the Inland Sea; Ghosts Devils and Spirits; Ohoto; Days of His Father; Last Days of the People; and The Days to Come. THE DESPERATE PEOPLE: The Chapters are: People of the Deer; Of Many Graves; A Spring to Remember; The Drums of Hope; Two Visitations; The Empires of the North; Journey into Fear; The Rusting Rifles; People of the Dole; Madness and Denial; A Dawn Extinguished; The Promised Land; The Ordeals of Kikik; For Us to Say; and Appendix: A list of the Ilhalmiut from 1946 - 1958. THE SNOW WALKER: The Chapters are: Snow: The Blinding of Andre Maloche; Stranger in Taransay; The Iron Men; Two Who Were One; The Blood in Their Veins; The Woman and the Wolf; The Snow Walker; Walk Well My Brother; The White Canoe; and Dark Odyssey of Soosie.
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Menuhin, Yehudi (editor) (Laurie Lee; Agatha Fassett; Farley Mowat; Ravi Shankar; Walter Starkie; Laurens van der Post; George Cable; Neville Cardus; Derek Parker; Thomas Hardy; Martin Buber; Lesley Blanch; Thomas Mace; Roger North; David Thomson) MY FAVOURITE (Favorite) MUSIC STORIES
London Lutterworth Press 1977 0718823087 / 9780718823085 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
160 pp. Red boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Decorations by Peter McClure. All stories are excerpts from longer works. This collection contains: A Song for Spain by Laurie Lee; Bartok in Vermont by Agatha Fassett; Song Cousins by Farley Mowat; The Story of Baba by Ravi Shankar; The Magic of the Csardas by Walter Starkie; With Grass and Lyre by Laurens van der Post; The Dance in Place Congo by George Cable; Sir Thomas at Rehearsal by Neville Cardus; Delius in the Cathedral by Derek Parker; The Musickers by Thomas Hardy; An Hasidic Theme by Martin Buber; Notes from the Balkans by Lesley Blanch; In Quires and Places Where They Sing by Thomas Mace; A Flourishing Time by Roger North; The Hermit's Hut by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson; The Music of the Seals by David Thomson; A Communal Rite by Lawrence Durrell; Orpheus in America by Louis Simpson; Breakers Roll More Gentley by Frances Densmore; Father and Son by H. and S. Cowell; Music of the Dreamtime by Daisy Bates; The Chime Child by Ruth L. Tongue; A Merry and Musical People by Frederic Shoberl; Insect Voices by James Kirkup; My Best-Beloved Mistress by Thomas Mace; Musick at Midnight by Izaak Walton; Wecome to Bath by John Wood; Music for Suitors by Hector Berlioz; The Last Night by Charles Reid; and The Choirmaster's Burial by Thomas Hardy.
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Mowat, Farley NEVER CRY WOLF - with - A WHALE FOR THE KILLING
Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1963 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
247 pp. Never Cry Wolf is the double-jacketed version. Both the first state dustjacket with the comic drawing of the wolf - recalled because there was some objection to the presentation of the wolf - and the orange second state dustjacket with the portrait of the author on the front, are present. Both jackets have some edge and corner wear; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper; no other interior markings. The Chapters are: The Lupine Project; Wolf Juice; Happy Landings; When Is a Wolf Not a Wolf; Contact; The Den; The Watcher Watched; Staking the Land; Good Old Uncle Albert; Of Mice and Wolves; Souris a la Creme; Spirit of the Wolf; Wolf Talk; Puppy Time; Uncle Albert Falls in Love; Morning Meat Delivery; Visitors from Hidden Valley; Family Life; Naked to the Wolves; The Worm in the Bud; School Days; Scatology; To Kill a Wolf; and The World We Lost. Also included here is a First Edition of A Whale for the Killing from 1972. 239 pp. Black cloth decorated in gilt on the spine; headband. Endpaper maps of Newfoundland, the front one done in line, the back one, by Michael Martchenko, done in gray washes. Very lightly rubbed at the corners of the dustjacket with a small nick on the upper right front panel, another small nick on the lower left front panel; no interior markings. Dustjacket and frontis by David Blackwood.
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114.00 USD
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Mowat, Farley NEWFOUNDLAND AND BEYOND: Westviking - The Ancient Norse in Greenland and North America; The Farfarers - Before the Norse; The New Founde Land - A Personal Voyage of Discovery; A Whale for the Killing
Toronto and Boston McClelland and Stewart; Key Porter Books; Atlantic Little Brown 1965 First and Second Printings Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
494, 377, 330, 239 pp. Westviking, an Atlantic Little Brown second printing, is bound in black cloth; decorated in gilt and blue on the spine; endpaper maps; blue upper edge; headband. Farfarers, a Key Porter second printing, is bound in blue boards; lettered in copper on the spine; endpaper maps; headband. The New Founde Land, a McClelland and Stewart second printing, is in black boards lettered in blue on the spine; headband. Whale, a McClelland and Stewart first edition, is bound in Navy blue cloth; lettered in gilt on the spine; endpaper maps; headband. All four books have light wear at the corners of the dustjackets; Westviking and Whale have a few small nicks around the edges; all the prices are intact; three of these have a previous owner's name inside. The Chapters are: WESTVIKING: Prologue: The Forerunners. Part One: Westward Thrust: The Road to Greenland; Erik Goes Westviking; The Empty Lands; The Western Wilderness; Return from Exile; The Land Taking; Bjarni Herjolfsson; Beyond the Greenland Sea; America Discovered; Hiatus. Part Two: Vinland and After: The Vinland Voyage; Leif's Norway Voyage; The Odyssey of Thorgisl Orrabeinsfostri; Gudrid; The Cross Comes to Greenland; Thorstein the Unlucky. Part Three: Land-seeking in the West: Thorfinn Karlsefni; The Outward Voyage; Staumfiord; The Search for Vinland; The Land of Hope; The Fatal Error; Death Comes to Thorvald Eriksson; Land of the One-Footers; Retreat of the Icelanders; and Freydis and the Brothers; followed by Epilogue: The Aftermath. Appendices: Part One: Descriptive: A: The Sources; B: The Ancient Weather; C: Ancient Sea Levels; D: Norse Geographical Concepts: 1: How the Norse Saw Their World; 2: The Evidence Upon Which the Reconstruction Is Based; E: Norse Sea-going Ships; F: Norse Navigation; G: The Ancient Map; H: The Vanished Dorsets. Part Two: Analytical: I: The Westmen of Iceland and Greenland; J: The Old Church Documents; K: Bjarni Herjolfsson's Voyage to Newfoundland and Labrador; L: Leif Eriksson's Vinland Discovery; M: Sources Dealing with Karlsefni Expedition - The Location of Hop; N: The Epaves Bay Site - L'Anse au Meadows; O: Karlsefni and the Beothuk Indians; P: The Norse in Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; Chronology of the Western Voyages; and an index. THE FARFARERS: Beginnings; Part One: The Old World: Farfarer; Tuskers; Pytheas; Albans and Celts; Armorica; War in the North; Pictlandia; Fetlar; Alba Reborn; Sons of Death; Fury of the Northmen. Part Two: Worlds to the West: Tilli; Sanctuary; Arctic Eldorado; Tunit; The Western Grounds; Westviking; Land Taking; Crona; Ungava; Okak. Part Three: Alba in the West: The Great Island; A New Jerusalem; Erik Rauda; Ari Goes to Albania; Alba in the West; Searching for Alba; Karlsefni and Company; The Best of Times; Drogio and Estotiland; Greenlanders; Jakatar; and The Country Path; followed by a postscript and an index. THE NEW FOUNDE LAND: The Rock; First Encounters; The Outport Way; Men Seals and Ships; Other Lives; Deep-water Men; Come from Away; and Messers Cove. A WHALE FOR THE KILLING: No chapter titles. To be clear, all four titles are included here: Westviking - The Ancient Norse in Greenland and North America; The Farfarers - Before the Norse; The New Founde Land - A Personal Voyage of Discovery; and A Whale for the Killing.
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Mowat, Farley NO MAN'S RIVER
Toronto Key Porter Books 2004 1552636240 / 9781552636244 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
255 pp. Blue boards lettered in copper on the spine; headband; illustrated with maps. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; some foxing on the endpapers. The Chapters are: The Why and the Wherefore. Part One: The Incomers; Living on the Land; Brothers; A Spring to Remember. Part Two: Windy Post; Man and Lemmings; Science Loses One. Part Three: Idthen Eldeli: Southbound; Many Islands Lake; Telequoisie; Brochet. Part Four: Kasmere's River: Climbing the Cochrane; Two to Remember; Kasmere's Grave; Kasmere's Birds; Putahow. Part Five: Arctic Prairie: Homecoming; Land of Little Sticks; The Deer's Way. Part Six: No Man's River: Big River; River Dogs; Eskimo Charlie; Kumiut; Tavanni Not. And Part Seven: Aftermath: Charles; Rita; followed by an index.
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Mowat, Farley OWLS IN THE FAMILY
Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1977 0771066473 / 9780771066474 Later Printing Trade Paperback Very Good Huntley Brown; Robert Frankenberg;
107 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Huntley Brown; interior line drawings by Robert Frankenberg.
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7.60 USD
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Mowat, Farley SEA OF SLAUGHTER
Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1985 0770420680 / 9780770420680 First Thus Trade Paperback Very Good Signed by Author
438 pp. Personalised inscription by Farley Mowat on the title page. Light rubbing at the corners with a flat uncreased spine. Contains a map of the northeastern seaboard, showing the area of the Sea of Slaughter. Illustrated with line drawings. The chapters are: PART ONE: FOWLES OF THE SEA AND AIR: Spearbill; Sea Fowle; Swiftwings; The Sporting Life; And Other Birds of Air; PART TWO: MEAT HIDES AND FUR: White Ghost; The Brown and the Black; The Musk Bearers; The Passing of the Buff; Wild Cats and Dogs; PART THREE: FISH OUT OF WATER: Kind Cod and the Regal Salmon; More Fish in the Sea; PART FOUR: LOST GIANTS OF THE SEA: The Better Sort; Rorqual; The Little Whales; PART FIVE: FINFEET: Sea Tuskers; Dotars and Horseheads; Death on the Ice - Old Style; Death on the Ice - New Style; HEREAFTER; followed by a select bibliography.
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Mowat, Farley THE REGIMENT
Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1989 0771066945 / 9780771066948 Later Printing Paperback Very Good
378 pp. Edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; store stamped. The Chapters are: The Years Before; Phoenix in Uniform; The Tiger in Their Midst; Cook's Tour; The Waiting Years; The Hour Strikes; The Sands of Sicily; Death Valley; Montgomery's Mountain Goats; The Flavour of Defeat; A Trap Unsprung; Interlude in the Apennines; The River of Blood; Battle of the Bulge; Winter Front; The Road to Rome; The Regment at Rest; The Gothic Line; Gateway to the Plains; Across the Rubicon; Betrayal; Operation Chuckle; The Battle Without End; Resurrection; The End in View; and The Years Ahead; followed by a glossary and an index.
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Mowat, Farley TOP OF THE WORLD TRILOGY: Book (1) (i) One: Ordeal by Ice: The Search for the Northwest Passage; Book (2) (ii) Two: The Polar Passion: Quest for the North Pole; Book (3) (iii) Three: Tundra: Selections from the Great Accounts of Arctic Land Voyages
Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1973 First Thus Trade Paperback Very Good
427, 365, 415 pp. First Thus - Revised Edition. All three books have light edge and corner wear with uncreased spines; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates and maps. The Contents are: ORDEAL BY ICE: 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. THE POLAR PASSION: The First Steps North - The Saga of Thorgisl Orrabeinsfostri 997 A.D.; The Bay of Disbelief - The Fifth Voyage of Robert Bylot and William Baffin 1610; A Moth to the Flame - Elisha Kent Kane Arctic Explorations 1853 - 1855; Life on an Ice Floe - Charles Francis Hall Life Among the Esquivaux 1865; George Tyson Wonderful Drift 1871 - 1873; Lieutenant Greely Sees It Through - Adolphus Greely The First Crossing of Greenland 1881 - 1884; The Inland Ice - Fridtjof Nansen The First Crossing of Greenland 1888; The Passion Quickens - A Survey 1892 - 1906; Voyage to Nowhere - Robert Bartlett The Last Voyage of Karluk 1913 - 1914; and The Top of the World - Frederick Cook My Attainment of the Pole 1907 - 1908. TUNDRA: Coppermine Journey - Samuel Hearne's Expedtion to the Coppermine River 1769 - 1772; River to the North - Alexander Mackenzie Reaches the Arctic Ocean 1789; The Navy Meets the Barren Grounds - John Franklin Marches to the Sea 1819 - 1822; The Great Fish River - George Back Traverses the Barren Grounds from West to East 1833 - 1835; The Musk Ox Hunter - Frank Russell Goes Hunting with the Dog Rib Indians 1892; The Brothers Tyrrell - Exploring the Interior of Keewatin by Canoe 1893; Murder on the Tundra - The Royal North West Mounted Police Patrol to Coppermine and Bathurst Inlet 1916 - 1918; New Lands - Vilhjalmur Stefansson Discovers New Arctic Islands 1916; The Spring That Never Came - John Hornby and Edgar Christian on the Thelon River 1926 - 1927; and The Trader Speaks - Thierry Mallet's Vignettes of a Dying Land 1915 - 1929.
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Mowat, Farley TUNDRA - Top of the World
Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1973 0771066279 / 9780771066276 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
415 pp. Navy blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; gray/green endpapers; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates and maps. The Chapters are: Coppermine Journey - Samuel Hearne's Expedtion to the Coppermine River 1769 - 1772; River to the North - Alexander Mackenzie Reaches the Arctic Ocean 1789; The Navy Meets the Barren Grounds - John Franklin Marches to the Sea 1819 - 1822; The Great Fish River - George Back Traverses the Barren Grounds from West to East 1833 - 1835; The Musk Ox Hunter - Frank Russell Goes Hunting with the Dog Rib Indians 1892; The Brothers Tyrrell - Exploring the Interior of Keewatin by Canoe 1893; Murder on the Tundra - The Royal North West Mounted Police Patrol to Coppermine and Bathurst Inlet 1916 - 1918; New Lands - Vilhjalmur Stefansson Discovers New Arctic Islands 1916; The Spring That Never Came - John Hornby and Edgar Christian on the Thelon River 1926 - 1927; and The Trader Speaks - Thierry Mallet's Vignettes of a Dying Land 1915 - 1929.
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Mowat, Farley WORLD WAR TWO: THE REGIMENT - with: AND NO BIRDS SANG - and - MY FATHER'S SON - Memories of War and Peace - and - AFTERMATH - Travels in a Post War World
Toronto McClelland and Stewart; Bantam Seal Books 1989 First and Later Printings Paperback Very Good
378, 196, 373, 239 pp. All four books have light edge and corner wear; My Father's Son has some creasing on the spine, the other three have uncreased spines; No Birds has a book plate inside; Aftermath and My Father's Son have been store stamped. The Chapters in THE REGIMENT are: The Years Before; Phoenix in Uniform; The Tiger in Their Midst; Cook's Tour; The Waiting Years; The Hour Strikes; The Sands of Sicily; Death Valley; Montgomery's Mountain Goats; The Flavour of Defeat; A Trap Unsprung; Interlude in the Apennines; The River of Blood; Battle of the Bulge; Winter Front; The Road to Rome; The Regment at Rest; The Gothic Line; Gateway to the Plains; Across the Rubicon; Betrayal; Operation Chuckle; The Battle Without End; Resurrection; The End in View; and The Years Ahead. AND NO BIRDS SANG has no chapter titles. The Chapters in MY FATHER'S SON are: Farley Mowat's Italy; Back from the Edge; The View from Monte Cassino; A Pauper Army; Slough of Despond; The Guns Go Silent; and Mowat's Private Army; followed by Abbreviations and Military Glossary. The Chapters in AFTERMATH are: To London Town; The Queen's Brew; Gaie Paris; Vercors; Fall of a Fortress; Encounter at the Miramare; Operation Chuckle; Ortona; Paradiso; Potters in the Caves; Arriverderci Italia; Roman Remains; Under Edge; Valley of Dead Dreams; and Peter and the Birds.
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