History Post-confederation (1867-)
Grey Owl
The Curious Life of Archie Belaney
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2011
- Category
- Post-Confederation (1867-), Historical
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781552777985
- Publish Date
- Dec 2011
- List Price
- $12.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551537856
- Publish Date
- Jun 2004
- List Price
- $9.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Reading age: 11 to 18
Description
"He gave his extraordinary genius, his passionate sympathy, his bodily strength, his magnetic personal influence, even his very earnings to the service of animals..." - Lovat Dickson, publisher. This book will be especially fascinating for all readers interested in: biography or animals. Grey Owl was known to millions of people as an outstanding Native Canadian spokesman who championed the cause of nature, conservation, and preservation. His cause was true, but the truth about Archie Belaney's mysterious ancestry was another story.
About the author
IRENE GORDON, who lives along the historic Assiniboine River just west of Winnipeg, has had a passion for history, reading and writing since childhood. After a career as a teacher-librarian, she became a freelance writer in 1998.