Item #E21795 Adrift On An Ice Pan (association copy, in dust jacket). Wilfred T. Grenfell.
Adrift On An Ice Pan (association copy, in dust jacket)

Adrift On An Ice Pan (association copy, in dust jacket)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. Later printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in ribbed light grey cloth lettered and decorated in dark blue. An association copy with inscription on the front free endpaper, "Grenfell Mission/ St. Anthony, Newfoundland/ August 30, 1937" . xxv+ 69 pp. Ilustrated with photographic plates. fine in very good dust jacket featuring an oval photo of a dog, light edge wear and some light soiling to the egdes. Doctor Sir William Grenfell was first sent to Newfoundland in 1892 by the Royal National Deep Sea Mission to Fishermen to institute medical facilities for the coastal inhabitants and fisherman, incuding the aborignal peoples, of that region. He set up a series of coastal cottage hospitals in Labrador. This reminiscence recounts the story of Grenfell's 1908 adventure during which he and his team of sled dogs became trapped on a ice floe; he was rescued by local inhabitants. grenfell made a final trip to the St. Anthony settlement in the summer of 1939 to deposit the ashes of his wife, who had died the previous December, in the rock face behind the hospital. Grenfell himself died in 1940 and his ashes were also placed in the rock face near those of his wife. Fine / very good. Item #E21795

Price: $45.00

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