True north / Elliott Merrick.

True north / Elliott Merrick.

By
: 
Merrick, Elliott, 1905-

Publication Date
: 
2005, 1933

Publication Information
: 
North Ferrisburg, Vt. : Heron Dance Press,

Physical Description
: 
294 p. : maps.

Subject Term
: 
Adventure and adventurers -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 20th century.
 
Adventure and adventurers -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador -- History -- 20th century.
 
Explorers -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
 
Explorers -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador -- Biography.

Geographic Term
: 
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Description and travel.
 
Labrador (N.L.) -- Description and travel.

Summary
: 
In 1929, Elliott Merrick left his position as an advertising executive in New Jersey and headed up to Labrador. There, he worked as an unpaid volunteer for the Grenfell Mission. In 1933, he wrote this incomparable book about his experiences in the northern wilderness, living and working with trappers, American Indians and the nurse he met and married.

Language
: 
English

ISBN
: 
9781933937007

General Note
: 
Reprint. Originally published: New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1933.


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CarbonearAdult NFic NLAdult Non-Fiction NL917.19 M55
Corner BrookAdult NFic NLAdult Non-Fiction NL917.19 M55
Deer LakeAdult NFicAdult Non-Fiction917.19 M55
GanderAdult NFic NLAdult Non-Fiction NL917.19 M55
Happy Valley - Goose Bay - MelvilleAdult NFicAdult Non-Fiction917.19 M55
Happy Valley - Goose Bay - MelvilleAdult NFic NLAdult Non-Fiction NL917.19 M55
Labrador CityAdult NFic NLAdult Non-Fiction NL917.19 M55
Mount Pearl - Ross King Memorial Public LibraryAdult NFic NLAdult Non-Fiction NL917.19 M55
St. John's - A.C. HunterAdult NFic NLAdult Non-Fiction NL917.19 M55
St. John's - A.C. HunterAdult NFic NL Ref - NL RmAdult Non-Fiction NL Reference - NL Room917.19 M55
St. John's - A.C. HunterAdult NFic NL Ref - Prov CollAdult Non-Fiction NL Reference Provincial Collection917.19 M55
St. John's - A.C. HunterAdult NFic NL Ref - VaultAdult Non-Fiction NL Reference - Vault917.19 M55
St. John's - Marjorie MewsAdult NFic NLAdult Non-Fiction NL917.19 M55