vii, 257 p. 23 cm. Frontispiece portrait. Dark red cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Some soiling to jacket. Spots on text block edge. Ink inscription on front endpaper states: "W. Saltzman with compliments of J. B. Tyrrell. Toronto, April 14, 1954." Biography of the geologist, explorer and historian Joseph Burr Tyrrell (1858-1957). "Tyrrell explored the vast areas of western and northern Canada, consolidating information gathered by earlier explorers and filling in blank spots on the maps, especially in the Northwest Territories, while working for 17 years for the Geological Survey of Canada (1881-98). He explored the Dubawnt and Thelon rivers to Chesterfield Inlet under considerable hardship, discovered the rich dinosaur beds of southern Alberta and important coal beds at Drumheller, Alta., and Fernie, BC, and added knowledge to the geography, botany, entomology, mammalogy and ornithology for many regions. He later became a mining consultant, and then a miner in the Klondike gold rush and in northern Ontario, eventually acquiring considerable wealth" (The Canadian Encyclopedia). Peel 5457.

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Title

A Canadian Geologist

Publisher

The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, Toronto

Publication Date

1930

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Good

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Good

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Geology and Mining

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