1937 Pilgrims of the Wild

Description

Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed

A signed eight printing of the autobiography of Grey Owl, the name taken by English Born Archibald Belaney who adopted a fraudulent First-Nations identity for himself and achieved fame as a conservationist.

Signed 'Grey Owl' to the title page, and illustrated with twenty-eight photographic plates. Collated, complete.

The fascinating autobiography of the British conservationist, fur trapper, and writer who disguised himself as a Native American man. While he achieved fame as a conservationist during his life, after his death, the revelation that he was not Indigenous, along with other autobiographical fabrications within this work, negatively affected his reputation.

This signed eighth impression was published the year before his death.