THE SKY PILOT : A Tale of the Foothills : (1899, Special Limited Edition)

Chicago, IL: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1899. Special Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good - COLLECTIBLE/No Jacket. Text/NEW Bright. Vintage 1899, Special Limited Edition. Illustrated taupe linen boards w/red lettering/Fine. DJ/None. PO name to front endpaper dated 1913. A social novel set in the Canadian west of late 19th century. Compelling tale from Canadian church leader Charles William Gordon (1860 - 1937), written under the pen name Ralph Connor. A story set in the isolated Foothill Country of Alberta --- to where men of adventurous spirit left homes of comfort, even luxury, to seek meaning in life along w/outcasts escaping social persecution in remote & undeveloped valleys. It is said, in time a missionary arrived. An influential old timer dubbed him "The Sky Pilot", oft shortened to "The Pilot". His biography is a narrative of how one man's affirmation to life and brotherly love, grows & matures to be a true man of God.