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Book Description Paper Back. Condition: Very Good. Seller Inventory # 228278
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.35. Seller Inventory # G092066315XI5N00
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. b/w Illustrations (illustrator). First Edition. In pictorial wraps, 8vo(oblong), 53pp. Illustrated. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" (oblong). Book. Seller Inventory # 0823621
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Canadian First. Minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings and maps. Book. Seller Inventory # 020306
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First. pp.53 with index, b/w photos and maps. clean tight copy, faint crease lower front corner, spine hinge crease, else minscule edgewear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 018724
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 53 pp. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps and drawings. The Chapters are: The Quest for the Northwest Passage - Highlight: The Arctic; The RCMP in the Arctic; St Roch Before the War 1928 - 1939 - Highlight - Life on Patrol; Through the Northwest Passage - Highlight: Navigating the Arctic; Back Home Again - Highlight: Henry Larsen; The Auxiliary Schooner St Roch - Highlight: Characteristics of St Roch; Appendix One: Chronology of St Roch's Voyage; and Appendix Two: Members of the Crew; followed by a glossary and an index. Size: Oblong 4to. Book. Seller Inventory # 227432
Book Description Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 4to pp.53. book. Seller Inventory # 246410
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good ++. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. SUBTITLED : ` The Mounties Arctic Schooner '. The St. Roch was originally built to service 4 RCMP detaschments along Canada's Arctic coastline, The year she launched: 1928. Previous to that they had relied on charterd supply ships. Read more about : Gjoa Haven, Constable Fred Farrar, Commissioner Wood, Constable Henry Asbjorn Larsen, Canadian Polar Expedition, Panipakoocho family, Burrard Inlet, and ironbark planks. The move to preserve the St. Roch began in 1958 when she was brought ashore. These 53 pages - INDEX at back - tell her story. Book opens with 2 b/w maps of the ship's reach. Vancouver Maritime Museum brochure laid in. Text assisted by b/w photographs. Cond : Paper wrapper is light blue with black lettering. Front cover painting courtesy of Canada Parks Service. Volume is tight, bright, square and clean. No names nor marks. Excellent martime reference copy. Minimal wear. Quote (p. 24) : " The greatest source of danger faced by St. Roch was the ice. Thick, always moving and inexorable in its massive force, the ice made sounds that reminded crew member Bill White of ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 012587