Miners and Moonshiners: A Personal Account of Adventure and Survival in a Difficult Era
Victoria, British Columbia: Sono Nis Press, 1983. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #002525
Signed by author. Laid in gift inscription. 203 p.p. + 20 unnumbered pages of B&W photographs. Original blue cloth boards with silver titling to spine. Bumping to spine ends, else fine. Dust jakcet has some rubbing to covers, edges, joints, and bumping to spine ends, damp stains to spine. An autobiographical account of mining and surviving most of Northern Canada. Zeballos, Great Bear Lake, Yellowknife, Timmins, Prince Albert...only a few of the places worked in a personal history that begins before the First World War. Prospectors, bush pilots, charlatans, entrepreneurs, gold, cold and isolation are all part of Fred Peet's narrative, as are the stories of the pioneers who mined and surveyed some of the richest (and poorest) claims Canadian history.
Price: $45.00