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2005viii, 152 pp. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. "Author tells what it was like to be an ordinary seaman on HMCS Kamsack and Caraquet. The war took him from Ottawa through grim convoy battles to the D-Day invasion." - from back cover. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
194550 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Founding Fort Edmonton; Policing the Far North - photo-illustrated article; One-page photo portrait of Sir George Simpson - the only known photo of him; "Nigger Dan" (Daniel Williams) - troublemaker at Fort St. John; Chevrons in the Sky - waterfowl article with photos; Arctic Airfield Survey - Craig Harbour, where the most northerly airport in the British Empire was surveyed in 1922; Summer at Temagami - photos with text; English River Hermit - An Indian named Mandayoh (stranger) lived 30 miles from the Trans-Canada Air Lines' field at Pagwa River; Through the Fjiords of British Columbia - photo-illustrated article with photo of the Union Steamship liner 'Cardena'; Northern Salvage - Claud K. Jones located sunken Canol machinery at the bottom of Great Slave Lake - fascinating photo-illustrated article describes how huge tracked vehicles were hauled up through the ice; Running the Alaska Boundary - great article with photo of Thomas Riggs and Jack Craig proudly displaying the flags of their countries and universities after setting the final point of the Alaska-Yukon boundary on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Photos of Eskimo tobacco substitute Atamaoya being harvested and smoked. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
196734 pages. "Prepared in response to requests from schools and from ship's personnel for information on, and pictures of, the multitude of local marine zooplankton. A simple key and brief descriptions have been prepared to assist in their identification. Directions are included for collecting zooplankton, together with a list of books written for the public about the sea and its creatures." - from page 1. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this informative work. Book
1914Pages 401-498, plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: "Hoodlum" - the plucky deed of fireman Roger Berry aboard the tug-boat "Elmer" on Lake Erie one stormy night - article with photos; Some New British Climbs - George Abraham describes a new route up the famous Pillar Rock and more, illustrated with remarkable photos; Like a Rat in a Trap - a nerve-trying adventure from 1888 near Southall, Middlesex finding leaks in a sewer pipe; Hurri Singh's Cobra - an adventure from the lake district of Kumaon; A Remarkable Open-Air Theatre at Interlaken, Switzerland; The Ship of Death - a strange story of the awful experience which befell a party of Royal Navy officers and men who boarded a mysterious barque on the high seas in 1908; East Africa As I Saw it (part IV) - photo-illustrated adventures illustrate life in Portuguese East Africa; The Swift Saskatchewan - what happened to a man who fell asleep in a canoe in the mighty Saskatchewan River in 1907; "Back to the Land" - a man in South Africa discovers he is not likely to become a successful farmer; The Poacher-Catchers - adventures of the five-man teams which guard the fur-bearing animals of Yellowstone Park; Pedro the Ladrone - an exciting story from the Philippines told by an officer of the U.S. Army who was in charge of a company of native scouts, with photo of the surrender of General Ramon Santos at Liago; Across Canada by Motor-Car (part I) - the first and only attempt ever made to cross canada from Ocean to Ocean - this marvelously photo-illustrated article deals with Thomas Wilby's experiences on the way to Winnipeg, where his worst troubles began; The Fight in the Moonlight - H. Randolph Spencer and his adventure with two bears in the Olympic Mountains in 1905; Photo of huge floating (?) Burmese pagoda in the form of a hen; Photo of large metallic anklets riveted to young women of Southern Nigeria; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1915Pages 194-288 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: A Millionaire's Adventure - Milan millionaire Signor Luigi Beretta becomes the victim of an infamous plot; War-Time Wanderings in the Italian Alps - a merry trio of climbers have some fun; A Fight for Life in Mid-Air - a workman dismantling a great chimney at the Whitehall Road electric power works experiences a terrible industrial accident; The Adventures of Howard Blackburn - Right Hon. Sir Edward Morris, P.C., Prime Minister of Newfoundland, describes nautical adventures of Howard Blackburn; "Grubb of Gran Chaco"- The adventures of pioneer W. Barbrooke Grubb in the Paraguayan Chaco; Six Weeks in Lahoul - a hunting trip for ibex and red bear; Allen's Well - how a man was buried at the bottom of a deep well and was rescued; The Lion's Cub - a striking story from the Coast Mountains of Southern Oregon involving 'Yellow Tail' the mountain lion, Jud Bucklin, and Dick Wimer of the U.S. Forest Service; Aunt Barbara Visits Mustypore - an amusing story from an Indian coffee-planting district; A Woman Alone in China (part II) - Mary Gaunt met with many odd experiences and saw many strange sights, which are here described in most entertaining fashion, with photos; A Tragic Ocean Race - Five clipper ships started on a race from Australia to China, but strange and terrible things happened aboard the "Island Bay"; After Gold in the "Land of Fire" - an unfortunate prospecting expedition in Tierra del Fuego; The Haunted Tomb - a tale from the Southern Punjab; and more. Covers nearly detached as one. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
2009488 pages. Glossary. Index. Clean and unmarked with moderate external wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent arctic marine systems text. Book
1987284 pages. Unmarked. Back cover missing, otherwise appear complete. Moderate wear. A sound copy of this pleasing compilation. Book
200988 pages. Features: Towns on the Edge - Ocean Falls and Alert Bay, B.C.; Poems for absent friends; The longest season in Afghanistan; Crazy monkey carnival; Steam, sweat and tears. Clean and unmarked with light wear. An attractive copy. Magazine
1960[11], 12-274 pages. Glossary, bibliography, index. Fourteen monotone maps and illustrations. "This study is confined to piratical and other foreign incursions on the Pacific coast from Panama north, beginning in 1575 or 1576 and continuing for the next 167 years." - Preface. Above-average external wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Contents clean. A worthy reading copy. Book
196170 pages. Features: Fourteen young, successful, but not necessarily complacent people - Father Louis Laurendeau, Elaine Bedard, David Owen, Gordon Whitmore, Adrian Vilandre, Martin Lavut, Zubin Mehta, Lynn Seymour, David Ferguson, David Gauthier, Michel Gelinas; What six young politicians think and do about politics - Brian Mulroney, David Greenspan, John Brewin, Ted Rogers (later of Rogers media fame), Jean David, Jean-Pierre Fournier; Short Story by Adrienne Poy (Clarkson) - Ring Around October; A look at the Middle-Aged Young by a reporter their age who finds they are bored by easy success; Tony Gregson's getaway with two gold bricks - he vanished from Yellowknife in 1954 with $54,000; The Sea Diary of a Gay Dog - Colin Acton was entertainment officer of the Queen Elizabeth, the world's biggest ocean liner; Bouncing on a trampoline can teach a child to read - findings of Montreal psychologist Dr. M.S. Rabinovitch; The most powerful village in the world - Georgetown, D.C.; The hotheaded master of Moresby Island - Captain Horatio Robertson built a 1,600-acre Chinese empire in B.C. and ruled as stormily as an Eastern despot; Peter Martin; Dimitri Dimakopoulos; Stewart Fisher. How ironic that the story featuring prominent up-and-coming politicians includes a photo with Brian Mulroney seated at a table with Peter C. Newman, the man who would later write a book entitled "The Mulroney Secret Tapes", which feature the author's controversial taped conversations with Mr. Mulroney. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding sound. Please note: missing pages 65-66 which contained end of the Young Canadians article. Book
196052 pages. Features: Cover illustration of plane loading with folks travelling to avoid winter climes; Communist Party of Canada changes its name back from Labor Progressive Party; One-page colour ad for the Chevrolet Corvair; Why Are Canadians So Slow to Anger? - asks Hugh Garner; Ross Maclean - the CBC TV star you never see; Jeann Beattie's robbery led to her becoming 'big sister' to youth group "The Saints"; Visit with Anthony Eden; Women fight to save elm tree in Winnipeg's Wolseley Ave; Canada finds her own Pepys - Sir Joseph Pope; When Ballet Came to the Bush - Les Grans Ballets Canadiens visits Sept Isles; My Life on the Ocean Wave - McKenzie travels on the Empress of Britain on her last call of the year at Montreal; Investors Syndicate ad includes photo of T.O. Peterson, President; Above-average soiling/wear to back cover Coke ad which features young lovely in formal attire; and more. Small patch of soiling to lower corner of several interior pages. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
195996 pages. Features: Cover illustration by William Winter depicts nervous invitation at youth dance; Movie censorship by province (brief article); Young business man Stephen William Garber; Finance Minister Fleming making enemies with his tight pursestrings; Fort William's censorious mayor Catherine Seppala - Lady Chatterley's Lover; Editorial says "If we burn Lady Chatterley, why not the Bobbsey Twins?"; The Grey Cup - and football - "are for the birds" says Frank Fredrickson; One-page colour ad for Orient & Pacific ocean liners; My Part in the Stratford Adventure - Tyrone Guthrie is the great director who guided the beginnings of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival; A Plan to Protect Our Savings Against Inflation, by H. Scott Gordon of Carleton University; Monty vs. Ike - a new report on the war's most successful and turbulent military partnership - article with photos from the memoirs of Viscount Alanbrooke; The Fraser River - six hundred miles of savage force; How I Sell Pretty Nearly Everything - Clifford V. French manages a Steinberg's supermarket in Dorval; The Mystery of the "Mice From the Sky" - Sally Carrighar studied lemmings for an arctic winter; The 'Secret Society" that saves marriages - the one thousand unpaid counselors of Britain's National Marriage Guidance Council; How to Lie Your Way to the Grey Cup - article on how CFL coaches lie about the health of their teams; I Watched the Titanic Rescue - Sir James Bisset was second officer of the Carpathia and recalls the rescue dash through icebergs and the grief of the survivors - article with photos; Canadian Club colour-photo ad features treasure divers Art McKee and Jim Thorne; Nice colour-photo one-page ad for Philips Sterio Hi-Fi (model F882); Colour-photo ad for Tooke shirts shows curling scene; Molson's Canadian one-page colour-photo ad features the tall clear bottles they used before converting to stubbies; One-page colour ad for the 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air 2-door sedan (red); One-page ad for "Canada's Own" Electrohome range of products; Zenith TV ad; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features couple in flower garden; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1889Outer dimensions: 21.75" x 14.5". Ocean currents indicated. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
198547 pages. Footnotes. Black and white illustrations. Undated but appears to be circa 1985. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1994v, 109 pages. Glossary. Index. Black and white illustrations. "In this manual, the techniques used to create the 32 different species in the Open Ocean exhibit have been presented in 10 groups, ranging from the simplest to the most complex. These techniques can be adapted for many uses such as reproducing archaeological artifacts as well as biological specimens." - Preface. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A nice copy. Book
1898The second issue of this popular and long-lived publication. Pages 114-224. Features: Canadian Curiosities - article with great illustrations; The Marvelous Feats of Juggler Ram Pershad; Earth Pyramids in the Rosengarten Mountains; "For the Company's Credit" - story of an ocean-liner race; The Queerest Monarch in the World - Mwanga, King of Uganda (illustrated article); The Wreck of the "Rising Sun" - fire at sea; Picnics in Perak - article with photo of many Malay sultans aboard elephants crossing a river; The Telegraphist of Neufchateau - true WWI story; The Romance of the Mission Field - part 1; Across the Atlantic in an Open Boat - article with photo of Harvo and Samuelson in their rowboat "Fox"; The Mysterious Tramp; Tree-Blazing - how explorers in Australia's interior mark trees to guide those who may come after them; Bagging a Man-Eater - Major A. St. H. Gibbons kills a lion to protect villagers - article with photo; "The Miracle of Moses" - the Platte High Line Canal in Colorado - article with photos; In Search of an Orchid; The Fiery Ordeal of Fiji - walking on coals (illustrated article; In the Ocean Depths - illustrated recollections of ocean diver John Pearce. Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. Last page is 224. It is uncertain if any pages were included after that. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy. Book
2000Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. 138 pages. "A chilling first-person account of the author's experiences of war at sea while in his late teens. On December 26, 1942 as a Merchant Navy radio officer he sailed on the 'Scottish Heather' into the infamous 'black pit,' an area where German U-boats could operate freely on the surface without fear of attack from the air." - back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
1991Limited Edition 2 Volume Set. xii, 496, iii, 657 pages. Index. Footnotes. Lists of Crews for Squadron 99, Squadron 355, and Squadron 356. "The histories of 'Liberator' Squadrons of the R.A.F. in Lord Mountbatten's South East Asia Command in the Second World War. These American aircraft came into service in 231 Group, the RAF Heavy Bomber component of Allied Strategic Air Force, and in 222 Group, Indian Ocean Air Force." - back cover of Vol I. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Bindings tight. A quality copy of this very informative set. Book
1945106 pages. Oblong 7" x 10". Undated but appears to be circa 1945. Profusely illustrated with wonderful vintage black and white photos. "This is the story of Pacific Mills Limited and the most northerly located paper mill on the North American continent at Ocean Falls, B.C." - page 3. Name stamped atop title page otherwise unmarked with moderate external wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy of this important history. HALE 1230, EDWARDS & LORT 2700. Book
197680 pages. Wonderful colour and black and white photography. Features: Beautiful one-page colour photo of Fanny; Colour ad for The Condemned inside front cover; Yueh Hua and Tanny visit the Hong Kong Oceanarium - colour photos; Lovely one-page colour photo of Shih Szu; Colour photo ad for Learned Bride Thrice Fools Bride-Groom; Challenge of the Masters - colour foldout photos; Colour photos of Chen Ni and Fu Sheng; Shaolin Avengers - two pages of colour photos; Beautiful colour photos of Yen Nan-Hsi, Shih Ping-Ping, Chen Szu-Chia, and Ching Li; Nice black and white photos of Ti Lung, Betty Ting Pei, Hsi Hua Chiang, Lily Li, Li Hsiu Hsien, Hu Chih, Fanny, and Fu Sheng; Shaw stars visit Ocean park - article and photos; Black Magic - part II; Mother's Day; They Came From Within (It's Deadley); Scenes from The Web of Death; Colour ad for The Dragon Missile; Colour photo ad for Rado watches on back cover shows man in kayak; and much more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
196018 pages. Features: Mailbag; How Wide is Steelhead Ocean Range?; Quail Hunt - article with photos of Pete Worobey and his song Bob; Bouncing the Bars - photo-illustrated article by Jim Railton about fishing in the Cowichan River includes photos of The Hancocks, Bob Hazeldine, Art Hancock, Dick Mahoney, Murray West, and Terry Thomas; Six-Pound Dynamute - Ed Meade writes about the six pound Breda magnum rifle, with photo of Jack Hutton; Boats; Photo of Wally Gentles holding 23-lb Spring salmon caught at Brentwood on Vancouver Island; Photo of near record Caribou trophy shot by Harold Daye with Don and Wes Bickerton and Innis Short near Burns Lake; Photo of Mrs. Montgomery of New Westminster holding 18-lb Steelhead caught in the Kispiox River; Back cover Lucky Lager beer ad shows men watching football on TV; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
199952 pages. Features: Cover photo of the Averity; Great centrefold photo of preserved victory ship Lane Victory; Vintage Passenger Ships of the World - Part 4; Victory Ships of WWII; Naval Review; Piracy Today; A-Z of Ocean Liners; European Ferry commentary; Ships Pictorial; Return of the Severn Princess; Flensburger Damf-Rundum; and much more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1939pp. [42]. "Commemorating the visit to Victoria [B.C.] of their majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth." - front cover. This visit took place in May 1939 as part of a major North American tour at a time when another major war in Europe seemed imminent. Queen Elizabeth II took part in the tour and is said to have 'lost her heart to Canada and Canadians' as a result. Oblong 9" x 12". Each page contains a black and white reproduction of a photo of a noteworthy site in the Victoria region or up-island. Some noteworthy details include angle parking on Douglas and Yates, jaunty men's golf fashions of the day, a marvelous view of Saanich farm lands from Mount Douglas, the Italian gardens and residence of Mr. Butchart, tall timber along Cowichan Bay Road, the Malahat Drive alongside Goldstream, and a day's catch of huge fish near Victoria. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent memento and snapshop of life in Victoria and on Vancouver Island in 1939. Not listed in Edwards & Lort. Book
1915Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: A Dead Man's Diary - Dmitri Garkin's body - and his diary - were discovered in the summer of 1913 on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean; Three Thousand Miles On A Raft - an adventurous voyage down the Amazon from Central Ecuador to Northern Brazil; A Railway Race With Robbers - A Sheriff pursues three desperate bank robbers in New York State; The Mutiny of the "Ziba" - part II - Captain John Hart relates how he was eventually able to escape and see justice brought to the murderers; The Land of the North Wind - P.H. Godsell describes his experiences in Keewatin; A Christmas Crime - story from the Australian back-blocks; The Great Cook Problem - the amusing story of how a resourceful woman tackled one part of the "Yellow Peril" in Nevada's "Bean House"; Tight Corners - part I - E.Torday recounts some of his African big game hunting adventures; "Smut" (short story about a queer pet and some of his doings); The Tree Spirit (short story from the area near Singapore); Our Travels in Safari-Land - part II of Edith Cecil-Porch and her journey through the wilds of British East Africa travelling with a wagon pulled by six oxen; Cupid and the "Wireless" - Sidney Lehre recounts a telegraphic affair while he was in the wireless service; Wonderful one-page photo of "An Eastern Venice", the town of Brunei, Borneo, once the headquarters of the dreaded Borneo pirates. Photo of a Kikuyu warrior buying a wife, paying with goats. pp. 8 [ads], 197-292, 9-32 [ads]. Tight, clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
1922Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Sorcerer of Nerac - The disappearance of a young farmer leads to the discovery of an amazing tragedy of superstition, leading to Frenchman Pierre Faget, the stoop-shouldered old wizard of Nerac, being sent to prison for trial; Our Crocodile Hunt - a Lake Nyassa tale involving a brush fire, a crocodile hunt, and the Kaiser's elephant gun - a lifetime of excitement in a few hours; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part II - the most mysterious one-man robberies to ever take place in America; At the Back of Beyond - photo-illustrated account of some experiences in remote Chitral; The Mutiny of the Athol - a very exciting story of the old whaling days in the Pacific, obtained from the ship's original log; Trailing the Gun-Runners - Part IV - conclusion of this thrilling story of adventure in the turbulent negro Republic of Dominica; P.M. Clarke - Correspondent - the story of an odd character whose pretty exterior concealed plenty of pluck and inexhaustible energy; "Honeymoon Island" - Photo-illustrated feature on idyllic Norfolk Island, originally a convict settlement, in the lonely Pacific; Through the East by Air - Part II - The memorable adventures of Richard and Sydney Carline, who were commissioned to make paintings of scenes in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Persia for the National War Museum; The Banker's Bet - the tale of a cautious banker, an unwary Scandinavian, and two clever rogues; Photo of "The Peanut Office" and its Nantucket, MA proprietor; and more. 86 pages plus 8 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A high-quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
