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1981Features: Remembering Lowell Thomas - patron of exploration; Northern Labrador Expedition - the Torngat Mountain Range; Birds, Bombs and Borders - migrants find refuge in disputed area north of the Sea of Galilee; From Sydney to Darwin - an Australian odyssey by motorcycle - Benjamin H. Shoemaker; In the Footsteps of the Dinosaurs - Peace River Canyon; Norwegian Explorers - their impact on Polar exploration; Obsidian Technology in Mexico - the cutting edge of an ancient culture; Journeys to the Gates of Hell - exploring the effects of nuclear explosions; Of Karyatids and Friezes - where marble was quaried for the age of Pericles. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1984Features: Birds of Paridise of Papua New Guinea; Quest for an 8,000-meter peak; African Wildlife Conservation - The Eleventh Hour; Rio Azul - Maya City of the Dead; Antarctic Search for Meteorites; Projeto Flora Expedition to Araca, Brazil; On the Desert Trail of Lawrence of Arabia; Natural History Guide to Tropical Isles and Seas. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1982Features: Carl Hoffman - Archival Notes; Encounters with the Killer Whale - studies of Orcinus orca behavior in the wild; Mosquito Shore (Honduras) Settlement Expedition - haunted by 18th-century colonist; Sending Fungi into Deep Space - aids study of space effect on living cells; Anyemaqen Shan Trek - birds and snow leopard survey; Six Weeks Down Under; First People of the Pacific Northwest - Fraser Canyon's earliest settlers placed at 9.000 years B.P.; China's New Frontier - oil discovered in Karamay, northwest China; Excerts from the Explorer's Journal of January-April 1932. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1979Features: Fiery Vesuvius; The Peregrine Falcon's Return; Marine Chart Revisions Urged; In the Wake of Typhoon Pamela - survey of the effect on the Guan Reefs; Offshore Migration of Land Birds - Weather Fronts assist long-distance fliights; Meteors; Underwater Archeology - Photogrammetry of artifacts near Bimini; Native Iron in Western Greenland - discovery and interpreation; Semiotics; St. Lucia Expedition - to collect and photograph wildlife. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1985Features: Hill Tribes of the Golden Triangle; Avalanche Rescue - a new method; The Ancient Silver-Lead Mines of Laurium, Greece; George Schaller's World; Harold Jefferson Coolidge; Oceanography - past, present, future; Cave paintings of Baha, Mexico; Names for the Birds; Jan Mayen; Follow-up on a Paleolithic site in India. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
193548 pages. Undated. Circa 1930s. Contents: She was one of the Early Birds; Daddy Wouldn't Buy me a Bow Wow!; Brighton; Skylark!; Varmer Giles; Pansy Faces; The Galloping Major; There's A Girl Wanted There!; In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree; I Wouldn't Leave My Little Wooden Hut; Waiting at the Church; Shall I be an Angel Daddy?; Captain Ginjay, O.T.; The Singer was Irish; Following in Father's Footsteps; Fol-the-rol-lol. Pages yellowing. A worthy working copy. Book
196474 pages. Features: Political candidates and the pro-gun issue; Winchester's new hot-shot, the .225!; Savage Guns Score! - their new line of rifles is a winner; Wads & Patterns; Taking the Kick out of Shooting - reducing the kick of a youngster's shotgun; Bear Rifles and Cartridges; Hunting the Hun - bag more of these game birds by learning their habits; No more 6 O'Clock Holds! - the new and unique air force aiming technique breaks many traditions; The Army's Duplex Load - two bullets from one shot is the army's answer to poor combat marksmen; Nice color photo Remington and Winchester ads on back cover; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
188616 pages. Contents: Ascot Toilettes - cover illustrations; Between Husband and Wife; Women and Men - who shall fix the value?; Family Living on $500 a Year - XXXIV; New York Fashions - autumn dress goods, pin-striped woollens, braid stripes, pomponettes, beaded corded and velvet stripes, plain wools and black stuffs, silk velvets, plaids and cross-bars, cloakings, dress trimmings; Personal; British Water Birds - illustration; British Land Birds - illustration; Open-air preaching by the sea-side - article and super centerfold illustration; The Woodlanders - continued; Paston Carew, Millionaire and Miserj - continued; Summer Beverages; A Lover of Flowers, by Mary Wilkins; Decorative hints from Mount Desert and the Adirondacks; Unwritten Laws; Quiet Obsequies; Watering-place Toilettes; Table Mat - canvas embroidery and plush; a bit of ancient court gossip; chair back with embroidered band; summer toilettes; corsages; some German sweetmeats; humor. Average wear and soiling Book
187016 pages. Contents: Ball and Evening Coiffures - cover illustrations; Shabby Gentility; Blot-Ting Papers - No. VIII; New York Fashions - style of making, ball dress materials, trimmings; coiffures; Personal; Infant's bib with crochet edging; trimmings for ball and evening dresses; Pelerine with hood; Britta's Christmas Gift; Sayings and Doings; Centerfold illustrations of Ball and Evening Dresses as well as seven gorgeous opera wrappings; Debenham's Vow - continued; Paris Fashions; Lovely full-page image of birds eating grain from "The Christmas Sheaf"; Two coiffures of ribbon and flowers; Low Blouse waist with peplum; blouse waist with sqauare neck; Management of plants in rooms; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
1965Features: 3-page colour photo Ford Auto ad inside front cover; Nice full-page colour photo ad for Algoma Steel's new wide cold strip mill; Canada's National Parks - unspoiled, or neon jungles?; A Maclean's Flashback - Francis Bond Head, the hapless hero who "Saved" Upper Canada; The Big Airport - Toronto International - photos and text; The changing Catholic Mass; Front letters to my son - Donald Pearce's poignant journal from the push into Germany 20 years ago; World Hopping to Watch Birds - 33 avid birders go around the world with first stop in Japan; Whipper Billy Watson accepts nomination to run as a Progressive Conservative in the York East constituency; Gerald Stevens and Canadiana; Leisure Living - seasonal section with colour photos; Full-page colour photo ad for the unlamented OMC Snow Cruiser snowmobile; Curling goes Country Club; "One Helluva Way to Pick Up a Moose", by Paul St. Pierre; Canadian ski racers - with photos of Nancy Greene, Peter Duncan, Rod Hebron, Scott Henderson; 2-page colour photo ad for the 1966 Chevrolet Caprice; Full-page Crown Zellerbach ad featuring their activity at Nitinat, Canada's largest grand stand; Colour ad for the 1966 Mercury models inside back cover. Light moisture staining to lower corner. Book
1964Features: How William Zeckendorf changed Canada's skyline and found trouble; The good woman and the convict - how Frances McKearney's devotion led a vicious criminal (Joe Flaherty) 'back to the human race'; The Peaceniks go to La Macaza, Quebec - the U.S. civil rights technique - non-violent civil disobedience - comes to Canada (many photos); How I became a solitary noisemaker - Sheila Burnford admits that her secret vice is talking with birds; The highway that's changing Ontario - portrait of 401, the monster that makes and breaks businesses, towns and drivers; How the Scotch out-talked the family compact - Scotch Grits vs. 'Rotten Tories' in Ontario's classic battle of wit and lung power (by John Kenneth Galbraith); Report on Two World's Fairs - New York is fun, but Expo 67 might just change the world; The Man who made it all the way back - excerpt from first novel of Hugh Hood; George Wallace - the educated bigot; a band called The Beavers - Canada's answer to the Beatles; United Appeal hurts our best charities - Dr. Gordon Bates. Average wear. Small piece missing from back cover. Unmarked. Book
195268 pages. Features: Great colour-photo ad for International Trucks inside front cover; Rab Butler's Bid for Power - in London Letter; Biggest Man on the Biggest Campus - Dr. Sidney Smith is President of the University of Toronto - article with photos; We Live in the World's Most Famous House - William Levitt of Levitt and Sons has built thousands of houses since the war in Levittown, NY and Levittown, PA - he is the Henry Ford of housing - article with photos; Billy Sunday of the Birds - a Maclean's flashback to Jack Miner and his legacy of caring for wild birds - article with photos in colour and black and white; The Farmer Who Makes Movies - Osmond Borradaile, the veteran Canadian cameraman has returned to his Chilliwack farm and has no intention of ever returning to the Hollywood rat race he once knew - article with photos; The Champ Still Baby Sits - Marline Stewart (Streit) of Fonthill, Ontario hasn't let all her trophies dazzle her - young gifted golfer article with photos; For 3 Nights Only - story by Joseph Schull illustrated by Marray Smith; Hero of the Hunted Men - Yaroslav Stetzko leads an army of underground fighters in a crusade to crush Russian imperialism - the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) - photos and article; Our Passport was a Dishrag - Johnny Cochrane and and Lenny Burton, two Canadian girls, describe their wonderful low-budget world travels - article with photos; Never Bet With Your Wife - humour by Robert Thomas Allen, illustrated by Duncan MacPherson; Cartoons by Peter Whalley - The Income Inquisition; Nice colour photos ad for Massey-Harris says "Power Farming Makes Canada a Land of Plenty"; Great centerfold ad for the 1952 Ford; Household Finance (HFC) full-page ad; Nice half-page ad for movie Macao, starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell; Full-page colour REO truck ad; 1952 Mercury car ad; Nice colour ad for Champion spark plugs inside back cover features young baseball player at bat; Sweet two-page colour ad for 1952 General Motors cars; Altas Tire ad features Byron, Michigan. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
195080 pages. Cover art shows football star Fred Doty and his fiancee Beverly Brown. Features: The Greatest Danger is Europe - a searching analysis which shows the peril in Europe where fear is stronger than the will to fight - by Matthew Halton; Don't Call Me Baby Face - Part two of the story of Vancouver Boxer Jimmy McLarnin - article with photos, including a shot of Jimmy golfing with Fred Astaire, Joe Louis and Bob Hope; I Saw the Chinese Reds Take Over - Norman McLaren explains how the 'new order' came to the country town of Pehpei - with photos; Never a Dull Moment at the Larches - Elizabeth Armstrong relates tales from her Victoria, B.C. boarding house; A License to Murder? - driver's licenses are handed out like dog tags; Lena Horne - Glamour C.O.D. - article with photos including a large colour full-page shot; Giants of Golgotha - story by Fred Delano; How We Massacred the Passenger Pigeon - a Maclean's flashback - once these birds blotted out the sun in Eastern Canada, but the last one died in 1914; Recipe - Take One Steamboat - Tony Didier, the chef of the CPR's Algonquin Hotel at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, serves up a shore dinner - article with photo; Fantastic full-page Coke ad shows Coke Cooler, glass, and soda jerk above a thirsty city - very nice!; The People Only Death Will Touch - The Rev. Aurthur Payton and Lawrence Earl travelled to Nigeria to help Lepers -article and photo; Massey-Harris ad focuses on how their products help farmers step-up meat-making nutrients in the crops they grow; Li'l Abner Cream of Wheat ad; Dow Brewery ad honours Auguste Prenovost of Montreal who tacked a galloping horse to prevent disaster on a traffic-laden street; Barbara Ann Scott is featured in Prest-o-lite battery ad. Center pages loose but present. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
195138 pages. Reproductions of black and white photos in text. Contents: Melanope - The Ship of Tragedy; Time, and the Indian; Panechates, Son of Hatres; The Pleistocene, or Ice Age of South-West British Columbia; Birds in the Cariboo; The Fine Arts; The Museum is a School of Visual Education; The Cinder Cone Buried Forest, Garibaldi Park, British Columbia; Pioneer Wesleyan Missionaries in British Columbia. Average wear. Binding intact. Moisture marks to periphery of all pages and covers - legibility unaffected. A worthy copy of this informative issue. Book
1974Features: Bird Navigation; Ludo Bogaert; The Painted Stone - where two rivers touch - the Nelson-Churchill trough; Snowshoes in the North Woods; Sketches of Winter Sea Birds in Victoria; Environmental Impact Assessment - another view. Few library markings. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1980Features: The Red Fox - has its troubles to this day; The Flamboyant Fungi - the showoffs of the fungus world; Jean-Luc Grondin - 'un dessinateur des oiseaux'; Living wild on Prairie Farms - farmers and wildlife share the benefits of habitat preservation; Maritime Defences - the animals which inhabit the fertile waters of our east coast are masters of self-defense. Few library markings. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1986Features: Fathoming Fjords - probing the underwater mysteries; Sacred Trusts - Are 'Exceptions' compromising our national parks?; Birds are Exhibitionists - photo selections; Where Inuit and Biologist Meet - Monitoring caribou, plus a quizzical look at Genus Gangifer; An Oar for an Osprey - the complicated joys of nursing a badly wounded osprey back to health. Minimal library markings. Moderate wear. Sound reference copy. Book
193516 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Hiking and Camping Forum; Canada's Quetico Park; San Nicolas - The Passing Island; The Golden Bird - the Yellow Warbler; Ice Caves amid Lava Beds - near Winona, Arizona; The Truth about Cloudbursts; Celia Thaxter - Poet of Nature; Birds lead Hazardous lives; Grass Bouquets; A Valiant Lance Bearer; Tracking Microcosmic Giants; Conservation - tests for hunting licenses; The Truth about the Black Bear; Duck 'Abundance'; Save Yosemite Sugar Pines; Vermin Hunts; Leopold on Waterfowl; Hercules - the Giant Sky-Figure. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
193516 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: 'Carbon Coke' - the story of a personal crow; The Waves of the Sea; Character in Flowers; The Tame Deer of Nara; Birds' Eggs without Robbing the Birds; A Salt Water Aquarium - the seashore holds much interesting life; The turbulent life of the Sand-bug; Hyacinths; Conservation - exploiting wildlife; Wildlife in the National Forest - who owns it?; President Roosevelt receives Forestry Award; Have we learned anything? - an alarming falling off in the numbers of black ducks; Outlook for Waterfowl; Poisoning Predatory Animals; Venus Hides Behind the Moon. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
193516 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: The Galapagos Islands One Hundred Years after Darwin; Wings of the Storm - gulls and cormorants in the north Atlantic; Kentucky Blue-Grass; Feathered New Yorkers; Puddlestone Gardens; Conservation - court decisions hep migratory birds; Progress in Roadside Legislation - the signboard debate; Covering Nature's Nakedness - a sacred duty - planting seedlings in Michigan; The Mourning Dove; Planets and Planetoids. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
193516 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Wild Brother's Secret homes; The Mollusk and Art - through the centuries it has inspired the greatest artists; Wol, the Sweet - the tiny owl native to Cuba; Attitudes of Birds - the song sparrow's individual characteristics; The weather man looks up - the stratosphere; Conservation - the 1935 waterfolw regulations; What Price... Fish?; Land use planning; Bay State Billboards - Massachusetts legislature rejects move of industry and Governor to ruin landscape; Buy who pays? - another row between the Forest Service and the Park Service; Through the Telescope. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
1983148 pages. Features: The law of the sea; microprogramming; the script of the Indus Valley civilization; mitochondrial DNA; the future of the universe; memory in food-hoarding birds; oscillating chemical reactions; autopsy; and more. Small initials atop front cover. Many nostalgic color photo ads. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
1969168 pages. Features: Acute respiratory failure; Amorphous-semiconductor switching; Magnetic recording; Non-Euclidean Geometry before Euclid; The Origin of the Oceanic Ridges; The Receptor site for a Bacterial Virus; How Birds Sing. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1994124 pages. Topics: The Future of American Defense; Sulfate Aerosol Climatic Change; The Molecular Architects of Body Design; When is Seeing Believing - digital manipulation of photographs; Liquid Mirrors of mercury or gallium; AIDS and the use of injected drugs; The Terror Birds of South America; Particle Metaphysics. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1979Features: Little Salt Spring; Tokyo Fish Market - A Wholesale Look at the Japanese Diet (Tsukiji); A New Island country; Stars for Kings; Birds of Rabbit Island; The Unknown World of Flipper; Hypothermia - Surviving Killer Cold. Sound copy. Book
