Horsdal & Schubart , 1994. 216pp. Trade paperback, covers slightly curled, no names or markings, b&w photos, reprint of the 1908 edition, novel of men working in logging camps in British Columbia, . Trade Paperback. Very Good.

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Martin Allerdale Grainger was born in London, England, in 1874. When he was two years old, his family moved to Australia, where he spent his childhood. He returned to England following his early education abroad, eventually entering King’s College, Cambridge, in 1893. After his graduation, Grainger set out for the Klondike, where he stayed briefly before volunteering to serve in the Boer War in 1899. After the war he fashioned a varied and colourful career which included logging and placer mining in the Canadian Northwest, tutoring students in England, and teaching mathematics on Vancouver Island. Grainger began his career in the British Columbia forestry industry in 1909, first as chief of records, serving as a secretary of a royal commission on logging practices in the province, and writing most of the report that led to the Forestry Act of 1912 and the creation of the British Columbia Forest Service. In 1917 he was appointed chief forester, a position he held until he retired to his private lumber business in 1920. Drawing extensively on his first-hand experience in the coastal forests, Grainger wrote his single literary work, Woodsmen of the West , in 1908, a highly original depiction of the frustrations and struggles of the West Coast logger at the turn of the century. Martin Allerdale Grainger died in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1941.

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Bookseller: Karen Wickliff - Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: w231032829
Title: Woodsmen of the West
Author: Grainger, M. Allerdale
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
ISBN 10: 0920663311
ISBN 13: 9780920663318
Publisher: Horsdal & Schubart
Place of Publication: Victoria, Bc, Canada
Date Published: 1994
Keywords: Canada Fiction Literature Timber Logging British Columbia Labor
Bookseller catalogs: Labor History; Canada; Fiction;

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