WIEBE, RUDY HENRY - A Discovery of StrangersToronto: Knopf, 1994. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394280504. DJ shows very light shelfwear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 8.19 X 5.59 X 0.87 inches; 317 pages; "A Discovery of Strangers is a story--based on true events--of love and innocence, murder, greed and passion set within the terrifying, fragile Arctic landscape. In 1820, John Franklin's small group of British officers and Canadian voyageurs, on their first expedition to search for a route through the incomprehensible North, encounter the Yellowknife Indians -- and Greenstockings, fifteen-year-old daughter of Keskarrah, elder of the Yellowknife, meets young Robert Hood, son of a Lancashire clergyman. Wordless, they devise a language of their own as their two worlds clash.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket . USD 14.50 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 11.5 | JP¥ 2274] Book number 18034is offered by:
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