Hoffman Arnold Illustrations by Irwin D Hoffman (1 results)

1958. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 420pp. Illustrated endpapers, illustrations, tables, glossary, index. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn and price-clipped and there is a previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. "Here is one of the great stories of all America, a saga of the north country where weather, terrain and flies and mosquitoes in incredible abundance conspire to drive out all but a few invaders and to retain for the region pretty much all of its primitive savagery. It is a story which, except for the Yukon, is unknown to residents of the United States, a race of people who firmly believe Canada to contain little but snow and whisky". Illustrations by Irwin D. Hoffman. (Canada, Business, Economics, Gold Mining, Gold Towns, International Affairs, Mining--Canada).…