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Author Name: Farley Mowat
Title: The Desperate People
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Type: Non Fiction
Edition: Stated First Edition
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Publisher: Boston Little Brown & Co. 1959
Illustrator: w/woodcuts By: Rosemary Kilbourn
Seller ID: 037477
ex library. There are tape marks on the top and bottom edges of the boards. The book is otherwise clean and tight, inside and out. The dust jacket is in a new mylar cover, it is not faded, clipped, or torn. The endpapers are maps relative to the book. 305 pages. Appendix. In June of 1947 the author stepped out of a twin-engined plane and stood somewhere in the immense plain of Northern Canada. He was looking for an Eskimo people who call themselve the Ihalmint, the People of the Little Hills. In the next two years the author became friends with the Ihalmint, the forty-nine survivors of a tribe which once numbered in the thousands. The next time he saw them was in 1958, they were down to a handful of confused, despairing individuals deported from their own land. This book is about their slow, painful extinction.
Farley Mowat, Canada, Indians
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