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Hamilton Mack Laing: Hunter-Naturalist
by MacKie, Richard (Signed)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0919203744
- ISBN 13
- 9780919203747
- Seller
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Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: Sono Nis Press, 1985. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. 234 pages. Index. Extensive footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. Laing "was a long lived, widely published, notable Canadian naturalist. His love was birds but his writing and his collecting expeditions ranged further... After living around North America he settled in the bird paradise of Comox, BC. This biography explores a man and a philosophy of conservation that insisted the naturalist be a good man with a gun." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. An excellent copy..
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- Bookseller
- RareNonFiction.com
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 322H1187
- Title
- Hamilton Mack Laing: Hunter-Naturalist
- Author
- MacKie, Richard (Signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0919203744
- ISBN 13
- 9780919203747
- Publisher
- Sono Nis Press
- Place of Publication
- Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Hamilton Mack Laing: Hunters Naturalists Canada Biography Comox Vancouver Island Hunting Conservation Birds
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Signed;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Jacket
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- Brodart
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