Sibir
by Farley Mowat
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0771065760
- ISBN 13
- 9780771065767
- Seller
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SALT SPRING ISLAND, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto on Can: McClelland & Stewart, 1973 first printing of 2nd edition - binging square and tight, only flaw is a .5" cut in the upper left back cover which leaves a very slight marking on the last 35 pgs. (barely discernible on the paper) .... 2nd Edition. Cloth. Good +/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- etcetera Salt Spring Book & Stationery
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000638
- Title
- Sibir
- Author
- Farley Mowat
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0771065760
- ISBN 13
- 9780771065767
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto on Can
- Date Published
- 1973
Terms of Sale
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