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John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1962. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1962. No Edition Remarks. 367 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth covered boards with gilt. Fold out map to rear. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Patchy sunning. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears and creasing.
THE LEGEND OF JOHN HORNBY by WHALLEY, George - 1962
by WHALLEY, George
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Toronto: Macmillan, 1962. G reen cloth, black spine label. pp xiv, (370) + 13 double-sided plates + 2 folding maps at rear. Light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Dust jacket spine faintly soiled, VG+ otherwise. Hornby was a Harrow-educated Englishman who in essence ran away to join the Indians in the Canadian North West. A man of mystery and the basis of legends in the North, he was a T.E. Lawrence-like figure who cultivated personal suffering and endurance, but unlike Lawrence he was in fact fairly inept, a foolhardy courage and endurance being his main asset. He couldn't swim, was a poor shot, and a bad planner in an inhospitable and unforgiving climate. In 1927, after 15 years in the bush, he was largely the cause of the death by starvation of himself, his 16 year old cousin, and another young man.. First Canadian issue. Hardcover. Oct.
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The Legend of John Hornby
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Laurentian Library, 1977. Book. Good.. Paperback. Covers are creased, interior has a name on first page else clean..
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London: John Murray. VG+/VG+. 1962. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . 367pp . Tad of foxing to foreedge. Arctic Canada ca. 1910-1925. Unaccountably scarce. .
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The Legend Of John Hornby.
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Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, [1962]. First Edition of this “authoritative biography” of the English explorer John Hornby in which “this restless figure is re-created and related to his contemporaries with whom he was associated during his wanderings in the Barren Lands.” (Story p. 362) In Inheriting a Canoe Paddle: The Canoe in Discourses of English-Canadian Nationalism (2013), Misao Dean describes Whalley’s biography as being beautifully written and meticulously researched, and identifies it as one of the great texts of Canadian modernism. Hornby died tragically in the Barren Lands together with his young cousin and another young companion in 1927. 8vo. pp. xiv, 367, [3]. 6 maps on 2 folding sheets. 26 illus. on 10 double-sided plates. index. cloth (spine faded). dw. (tears to edges of dw.). elala5883
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