Author: TOLBOOM, WANDA NEILL
Title: Arctic Bride
Description: Toronto: The Ryerson Press/The Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. x, [2], 256 pages. Black and white photographic plates. "Life among the Eskimos, in an isolated Hudson's Bay Company trading post on the far north-eastern shore of Hudson Bay, is vividly and engagingly described by a Manitoba girl who went North to marry the Post Manager and spent the first two years of her married life there. Includes discerning pictures of Eskimo character and ways of life, accounts of seal and whale hunts, and exciting stories of trips through dangerous waters clogged with drifting ice in a small motor-powered boat." - dust jacket. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Moderate wear to publisher's canary yellow cloth. Binding intact. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wanda Neill Tolboom, Hudson Bay Company, Eskimos, Inuit. Good in Good dust jacket .

Keywords: Native Peoples Travel Exploration & Adventure