Author: GUPPY, ANTHONY
Title: The Tofino Kid - from India to This Wild West Coast
Description: British Columbia: Priority Printing, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 096873720X. Illustrated by Guppy, Tony. "Anthony Guppy was born in India in 1920 where his father was with the Indian Civil Service. In 1921, the family moved to the isolated village of Tofino on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Growing up there during the Depression gave him a special affection and regard for the beaches and inlets and forests where he and his siblings played, learned to fish, hunt and sail. After serving in the Canadian Army overseas during WWII he returned to the West Coast. In this memoir, he returns to the early years in Tofino." - back cover. 202 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Clean, bright, tight and unmarked with very light wear. An attractive example.; Cover Illustration; 8vo. Very Good .

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