Author: ANDERSON, J. [JAMES] W. (SIGNED); TWEEDSMUIR, LORD (FOREWORD)
Title: Fur Trader's Story
Description: Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed, dated and generically inscribed by author/subject upon half-title page. 245 pages. Map endpapers. Black and white photographic plates, including frontispiece photo of author/subject in travel attire. Anderson "recounts his nearly half a century in the Canadian north. By snowshoe and dog team, by canoe, sailboat and steamer, he travelled throughout the woodlands and the Arctic regions of Canada - with numerous side trips to the west coast of Greenland. Includes many a fabulous anecdote - tales of courage and privation, humour in the bivouac and excitement on the trail. Discusses the fur trade and its history, interspersing his narrative with reflections which provide sharp insight to this theme." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings atop half-title page. Light wear to book. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; J.W. James Jim Anderson Fur Trader Biography HBC Canoe Hudson's Bay Company Greenland Fur Trade History Native Peoples Woodlands Arctic Canoe Snowshoe Wolves Bivouac Dog Team Sled; Signed by Author(s). Very Good in Fair dust jacket .

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