WOMEN OF THE KLONDIKE
by Backhouse, Frances (foreword by Pierre Berton)
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1551103753
- ISBN 13
- 9781551103754
- Seller
-
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Vancouver and Toronto: Whitecap Books, 1997. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo. (xi) 212 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. The Contents are: Foreword by Pierre Berton; Preface; First Woman of the Klondike; Women on the Gold Rush Trail; Loyal Wives and Hopeful Spinsters; Ministering to the Wants of Helpless Masculinity; Come and Do a Shuffle with Me, Sam; Hunting for Souls in the Gold Fields; The New Woman in the North; With Shovel and Gold Pan; Doing the Klondike; and Woman Holds the Field; followed by Selected Bibliography and an index..
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- Bookseller
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 217375
- Title
- WOMEN OF THE KLONDIKE
- Author
- Backhouse, Frances (foreword by Pierre Berton)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- Later Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1551103753
- ISBN 13
- 9781551103754
- Publisher
- Whitecap Books
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver and Toronto
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- women; yukon territory; klondike river valley; northern; arctic; canadian author; canadiana; gold rush; equality; women's rights; issues; reproductive freedom; feminist movement; suffrage; suffragist; suffragette; me too movement;
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - Canada;
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About the Seller
W. Fraser Sandercombe
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Burlington, Ontario
About W. Fraser Sandercombe
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