The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
de Farley Mowat
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good/Fair
- Librería
-
TORRINGTON, Wyoming, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Toronto, Canada: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1970. Book. Good. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. G/F, used hc, 243pp. Blue cloth over boards with silver text on spine; slight edge wear; shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Color illustrated dust jacket with black colored text on upper and spine; edge wear resulting in small chips, tears, triangular fold, small missing pieces; not price clipped. Former owner's name on front and rear fep and page 161; gift inscription on verso ffep; else interior pages are clean and unmarked except pages 204-206 and 208 which has underlining and other pencil markings. Map end papers. Binding is tight..
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 017730
- Título
- The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
- Autor
- Farley Mowat
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fair
- Edición
- 3rd Edition
- Editorial
- McClelland and Stewart Limited
- Lugar de publicación
- Toronto, Canada
- Fecha de publicación
- 1970
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Palabras clave
- Farley Mowat, Autobiography, Newfoundland, Romance
Términos de venta
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