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Anticosti The Untamed Island
by MacKay, Donald
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0070829330
- ISBN 13
- 9780070829336
- Seller
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
Item Price
NZ$76.60NZ$38.30
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About This Item
Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1979. Anticosti, the enigmatic island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, has a strange story. Long shrouded in mystery, known only to a few fishermen and to sailors shipwrecked on its treacherous reefs, Anticosti gained a grim reputation... the author tells the story of Anticosti and its people from the discovery by Jacques Cartier to the present day in this fascinating and informative book. Blue and black tweed boards. Title print to spine gilt,- blue endpapers,- no ownership markings. Photographs and maps accompany text. Repleat with notes, bibliography and index. Illustrated jacket back panel shows a LANDSAT mosaic photograph clearly showing position of the island. A nice copy.. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gilt Edge Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A1090
- Title
- Anticosti The Untamed Island
- Author
- MacKay, Donald
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0070829330
- ISBN 13
- 9780070829336
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Maritime Quebec Canadiana Anticosti ISBN 0-07-082933-0 Anticosti-History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Maritime Provinces;
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