Wake of the great sealers.

By:

Mowat, Farley

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: [Toronto] McClelland and Stewart [c1973]Description: 157 p. illus. 30 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0771015275

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

F 5418 M93 1973

Summary: Semi-fictitious account of the lives of Newfoundland sealers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. - From the Jacket - "They were a people out of time- a breed of men whose certainty and hardihood, whose courage ad tenacity, liked them more closely to the ancestors of our species than ourselves. They were one with nameless and long forgotten beings to whose essential qualities we owe our dominance. They were essential Man. Thus Farley Mowat describes the Newfoundland men of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who set out in flimsy ships to hunt seals on the treacherous North Atlantic ice fields. Their heroism and their hardships, their will to endure, were extraordinary by any standard...."

List(s) this item appears in: Richardson Collection

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Open-stacks	F 5418 M93 1973 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	16055001442

pp 156 - 157, List of prints and drawings.

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