Measuring Mother Earth: How Joe the Kid became Tyrrell of the North

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.