Charles Broley: An Extraordinary Naturalist; Reflections on a Rideau Lake ** SIGNED **
Language: English
Published by White Horse Plains Publishers/ The Wordsmith, Headingley, Manitoba / Westport, ON, 1983
- Signed
- Softcover
- New
Seller: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, CanadaLower Beverley Better Books
AbeBooks seller since January 11, 2007
Condition: New
£ 106.67
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An offering of two titles linked by geography . 1) Charles Broley: An extraordinary naturalist.Prologue. Foreword by author. Acknowledgements. Six chapters: 1. Beginnings; 2. Delta, Ruby, A Summer Cabin, and a Slowly Growing Interest in Wildlife; 3. Winnipeg, A New Wife, A New Life; 4. Ornithological Wanderings and a Daughter [ Jeanne]; 5. Retirement and Bald Eagles; 6. DDT, Habitat Changes and Declining Eagles, Broley Crisscrosses the Continent Lecturing - Slowly Public Perceptions of Birds of Prey Change and the Protection Movement Swells. 54 pp. plus: Epilogue, Selections from the Poetry of Myrtle Jeanne Broley, Biography of Works by Charles Broley with a Few Titles by His Wife, Myrtle, His Daughter, Jeanne and Others, References. 2) Reflections on a Rideau Lake. A biography of Lower Beverley Lake, " clawed out when the Wisconsin Glacier retreated ten to eleven thousand years ago," (p. 1) Author intertwines the story of the lake and her own. Illustrated with the author's paintings and contributed paintings and photographs by presumably ' lake people '. 172 pp. plus Acknowledgments. Rear panel is a coloured topographical map of the area of the lake. FlatSIGNED by the author in black ink. Many connections between the two books. Also several photographs by bookseller. Bookseller's Inventory # 160665.…
Seller Inventory # 000665
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Charles Broley: An Extraordinary Naturalist; Reflections on a Rideau Lake ** SIGNED **
- Author
- Gerrard, Jon; Patric, Jeanne Broley
- Publisher
- White Horse Plains Publishers/ The Wordsmith, Headingley, Manitoba / Westport, ON
- Publication year
- 1983
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Signed
- By Author
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0920103006
- ISBN 13
- 9780920103005
- Illustrator
- Author and Various
- Edition
- No Edition Stated, Presumed First
- Dimensions
- 9 1/2" X 7 1/4"
- Seller catalogs
- Autobiography, Outdoors, Signed
Lower Beverley Better Books
Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
AbeBooks seller since January 11, 2007
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LOWER BEVERLEY BETTER BOOKS is a virtual bookstore operated from a retired teacher's home on the shores of Lower Beverley Lake. It just 'grew' from an interest in antiques,an inability to bypass yard sales and a drive to keep books alive and out of landfill.
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