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Sibir: My Discovery Of Siberia
de Mowat Farley
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0771065809
- ISBN 13
- 9780771065804
- Librería
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
Toronto, Ont.: McClleland & Stewart Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. hardcover. 0771065809 . Green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Endpapers are maps. DJ is black, yellow and orange, chipping on the top and bottom of spine and edgewear. Flap crease shows wear, but no writing, marks or tears. "Mowat's graphic prose bring to life a people who share the top of the world with us ( Canadians). "Mowat shows his natural affinity for the North and for people whose lives are closely attuned to the elements." ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 313 pages .
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 Hardcover edition.
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- Librería
- Bytown Bookery
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 21211
- Título
- Sibir: My Discovery Of Siberia
- Autor
- Mowat Farley
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0771065809
- ISBN 13
- 9780771065804
- Editorial
- McClleland & Stewart Inc.
- Lugar de publicación
- Toronto, Ont.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1972
- Palabras clave
- 0771065809, Siberia
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Travel;
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