Measuring Mother Earth: How Joe the Kid became Tyrrell of the North by Robertson, Heather - 2007

Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

McClelland & Stewart, 2007. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

McClelland & Stewart. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0771075391 . Light rubbing to d/j, 1/4" tear to top front edge. Some wear/indenting to edges of boards. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery.; 9.10 X 6.10 X 1.30 inches; 360 pages .

McClelland & Stewart, 2007-10-23. Hardcover. Good.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0771075391 . Only light wear, traces of previous owner's stamp on front pastedown. ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; B&W Illustrations; 1.3 x 9.1 x 6.1 Inches; 360 pages; A vivid, entertaining portrait of the great Canadian explorer Joseph Burr Tyrrell, the man who single-handedly invented the notion of the “Romance of the North”. In the 19th century, exploring the Earth was as exciting and awe-inspiring an activity as space exploration was in the 20th century. And even as late as the 1880s, vast expanses of Canada remained largely untrodden by Europeans. So joining the Geological Survey in 1882 was the realization of a dream for the short-sighted, profoundly deaf, and egotistical young Joseph Burr Tyrrell. A romantic, inspired as much by Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure novels and by Wild Bill Hickock’s… Read More

McClelland & Stewart, 2007. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR! Brand new unread copy - just a hint of shelfwear otherwise pristine. From the publisher:"A vivid, entertaining portrait of the great Canadian explorer Joseph Burr Tyrrell, the man who single-handedly invented the notion of the "Romance of the North". In the nineteenth century, exploring the Earth was as exciting and awe-inspiring an activity as space exploration was in the twentieth century. And even as late as the 1880s, vast expanses of Canada remained largely untrodden by Europeans. So joining the Geological Survey in 1882 was the realization of a dream for the short-sighted, profoundly deaf, and egotistical young Joseph Burr Tyrrell. A romantic, inspired as much by Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novels and by Wild Bill Hickock's exploits as by the spirited debates about evolution that informed his work, Tyrrell chafed under the strictures of the survey. By… Read More

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2007. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original hard covers, in dust jacket. Clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat. .

McClelland & Stewart. Used - Good.

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.