seal books published by mcclelland and stewart bantam limited toronto (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 6th Printing. Cover has light edge wear, pages tanned, otherwise appears unread. 4 X 7" 209 pages. Adventures of a heroic people surviving in the stark and savage Arctic by one of Canada's most popular storytellers. Mowatt writes passionately of the bonds between these people and their world. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage**.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Third Printing. Pages tanned 4 X 7" 240 pages, from 1980. Married to a dedicated zoologist, Lyn Hancock shared her home with fur seals, mountain lions, bears, and a macaw named Scarlett O'Hara. When her husband suggested they drive up the B.C. coast to Alaska to film the relocation of a sea otter colony, Lyn enthusiastically packed up their truck - along with her lovable raccoon, Rocky. This story of their incredible journey will warm the hearts of animal lovers everywhere. With black/white photographs. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage**.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Printing. Light spine crease, pages lightly tanned, otherwise without flaw. 4 X 7" 246 pages. This moving novel of a woman yearning for love was the source of the acclaimed motion picture 'Rachel, Rachel'. By one of Canada's most celebrated novelists. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage**.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). Pages lightly tanned, otherwise very clean and well bound. In Born Naked Mowat tells the story of his unusual childhood, from sailing trips on Lake Ontario to explorations of Point Pelee, Vancouver Island, and Hudson Bay. It is the story of an eccentric family who stuck together through tough economic times with ingenuity, hard work, and unfailing love. It is also the story of a young boy's awakening to nature within and around him, an awakening that would one day make him one of the world's most popular authors. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage**.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair. Bill Schmidt (illustrator). First Thus 1st Printing. Previous Owner Markings (List of Names Neatly Inked to Inside Front, Back Covers, Front and Back Matter; White Paint Smudge on Edges); Repaired; Heavy Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers Moderately Chipped; Spine Heavily Chipped; Heavy Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Heavily Soiled; Moderate Moisture Damage (Staining); Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. The incredible truth behind the most notorious and shocking crimes in Canadian history. BACK COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY: Frank Jones. CONTENTS: Prologue; She Wore a Shroud; The Mayor They Charged with Murder; The Body in the River; The Case of the Missing Baby; Good-bye, Olive Swimm, and Sleep; Albert Guay: The Great Pretender; Shootout at Megantic; The Judge Who Was Tried for Murder; Who Poisoned Percy Bell?; A Marriage of Inconvenience; How Anti-Semitism Saved a Toronto Killer; What the Children Saw; The Sifton Murder; A Strangler So Gentle; The Hot Stove Murder; Martha McCullough: Murdered in the Name of God; Toot, Toot, Tootsie! Goo' Bye; The Professor Panicked; Who Shot the Scottish Nightingale?; The Nightmare of Paul Stromkins. SYNOPSIS: THEY WERE MORE THAN MERE KILLERS. CATHERINE SNOW: whose visit to the gallows had to wait for her to give birth to her lover's baby. MAY BANNISTER: crude and sinister, whose bizarre murder scheme backfired and led to the execution of her two sons. ALBERT GUAY: whose attempt to marry his mistress led to the murder of his wife--and twenty-two others AND VICTIMS. LITTLE MARTHA MCCULLOUGH: bludgeoned and then strangled to death by her maniacal parents in the delirium of their religious fervor. OLD JOE SIFTON: felled by an axe when his son saw no other way to safeguard his inheritance. Join award-winning reporter Frank Jones on a coast-to-coast tour of some of the most notorious murders in Canadian history. Through trial transcripts, newspaper accounts and interviews, he re-creates twenty horrific and mind-boggling true stories of lust and revenge, rich with personalities and details. Frank Jones has worked for The Winnipeg Tribune, the Toronto Telegram and, since 1966, for The Toronto Star. During a career of more than twenty years in Canadian journalism, he has reported on events in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, culminating in a National Newspaper Award for his coverage of the Middle East War in 1973. In 1976 he was awarded a Southam Fellowship. His work in the past few years as senior features writer for The Toronto Star has taken him all over the world, from the Yukon to Bangladesh. He is the author of a series on notorious murders in Ontario and, most recently, on the romances of English monarchs throughout history. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.