Making Good Canada by Frederic Talbot (2 results)
More imagesPublished by Adam and Charles Black, London, Great Britain, 1912
- Hardcover
Seller: Lucky Panther Books, Leonia, NJ, U.S.A.Lucky Panther Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. "With 32 full page illustrations from photographs". Early development in Canada - agriculture, mining, logging, trapping, more. See list of illustrations in images to get an idea of topics. Condition fair to poor. Previous owner's name and stamp on front fly paper. Soil on edges of text blo…ck, boards; spine darkened. Hinge cracked at one place in interior, binding remains firm. 282 pages, 5 1/2" x 8".
Published by Adam and Charles Black London 1912, 1912
- Hardcover
Seller: lobstabooks, leiston, United Kingdomlobstabooks
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used
£ 5.00
£ 27.00 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketVG (no dj, clean red cloth with black titles and decoration on lightly faded spine, black titles and central heraldic device on front board with ruled borders, boards in very good condition with no wear to edges, two very small patches surface wear front board, a very good clean tight bright copy with prize plate front fixed end…paper and small ink signature, small surface abrasion title page and one or two faint isolated spots, internally the pages are very clean and bright with just the occasional small faint spot margins of last few pages, scattered spotting outside page edges) octavo 282pp plus 2pp publisher's adverts. B/w frontis and 32 full page b/w photographs. Packed with information and advice on emigrating to Canada just after the turn of the century, different opportunities for employment, the difficulties to be overcome, the weather, country, wild life, trapping, trailing, prospecting, farming, logging, life in a frontier town etc. Based on the author's own experience.
