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- PublisherViking
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0670882437
- ISBN 13 9780670882434
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages275
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Chasing the Chinook: On the Trail of Canadian Words and Culture
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Viking, Toronto, 1998
ISBN 10: 0670882437
ISBN 13: 9780670882434
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Hardcover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Seller Inventory # 7595
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CHASING THE CHINOOK
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (xix) 275 pp. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Subtitled: On the Trail of Canadian Words and Culture, the Chapters are: Acadia - This Is the Forest Primeval; Bacteriophage - Of Things Visible and Invisible; Balm of Gilead - A Tree Grows in Bamagalia; Bloody Caesar - So Set 'Em Up Joe; Bluenose - Sot Down in New York; Caboose - Trainspotting in Winnipeg; Canada - Here There Are No Maps; Carriole - Jingo Bells, Jingo Bells; Chinook Winds - Chasing the Chinook; Colcannon Night - Bubble and Screech; Common Gallinule - Where Nests the Chicken-foot Coot; Crokinole - Hustling Crokinole; Documentary - Art as Hammer; Dominion - The Kingdom of Canada; Filles du roi - Figures in the First Garden; Garrison Mentality - Across the River and Out of the Bush Garden; Gopher - Rodents of the Lost Ark; Grizzly Bear - Exeunt Pursued by a Gear; Groundhog - Who Are Wiarton Willie; Ice - Water Turned to Bone; Jerusalem Artichoke - The Canada Potato; Joual - Speaking Horse; Kerosene - The Man Who Put the Tiger in Your Tank; Mackinaw - It's a Lumberjacket and It's Okay; Muskrat - The Shop Girl in Her Musquash; Newfoundland Dog - To Make a Mongrel; Pablum - Fodder and Child Reunion; Peking Man - Skulduggery on Chicken Bone Hill; Pogey - Hard Times in the House of Industry; Polygraph - Where the Truth Lies; Potlatch - The Grand Give-away; Puck - The Puck Starts Here; Pullman - Sharp Cars; Sasquatch - Wild Men of the Woods; Skinny - Choosing Up; Ski-Doo - The Monster; Superman - Look Up In the Sky; Tourtiere - Pigeon Pot Pie; Truck System - What You Get; Tuque - Don't Get Your Tuque in a Knot; and Zipper - On Closing. Size: 8vo. Book. Seller Inventory # 228801
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Chasing the Chinook: Ion the Trail of Canadian Words and Culture
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ISBN 13: 9780670882434
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Chasing the Chinook: On the Trail of Canadian Words and Culture
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Chasing the Chinook on the Trail of Cana
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Chasing The Chinook : On The Trail Of Canadian Words And Culture
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Chasing the Chinook
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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo pp. 275, "Noted naturalist and science writer Wayne Grady set out a few years ago to compile a dictionary of Canadianisms. It would dispel notions held elsewhere in the world about "how we tack the tag-word ?h onto the ends of all our sentences" and would explain why "we bullheadedly continue to spell ?olour and ?torey like the?. book. Seller Inventory # 293994
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Chasing the Chinook; On the Trail of Canadian Words and Culture
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[0-670-88243-7] 1998. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. xix, 275pp. 8vo. Dust jacket very good. Stories of Canadian cultural identity. Blue covers, gilt title to spine. Clean and crisp. Seller Inventory # 125442
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Chasing the Chinook: On the Trail of Canadian Word
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Hardcover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. Essays on exploring Canadian culture by the words that are used. Seller Inventory # 1083935
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