1967 Canada's North

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Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

In the original un-clipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this informative introduction to North Canada. The author tells the history of the country, starting with the Viking explorers, and how people and animals have settled thee over the past thousand years. Phillips informs the reader on the geography of the land, the native inhabitants, and the the climates. R A J Phillips travelled extensively to the North, providing him with the essential knowledge and experience to write this book. He was also the director of the federal government's anti-poverty program in the 1960s. With twenty-four plates of coloured and black and white photographs, and eight plates of maps. With a prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper ' Happy Birthday Group Captain Bader, from Alyson Smith, 21/2/69'. Collated; complete.