Canada: A Study Of Cool, Continental Environments and Their effect on British and French Settlement
London: Methuen, 1950. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #007114
Second revised edition. Full green cloth. Map endpapers. xv, 526 pp. [4] half-tone plates, 165 in-text illustrations. Slight bowing to front boards. Foxing to edges of text block. Dust jacket is darkened and scuffed at spine, light bumping and rubbing to extremities, short tear to top edge of rear cover, offset panel to rear. Griffith was a Professor of Geography in the University of Toronto and his book is based on the result of extensive travel and study. It is divided into three parts, of which the first deals with the exploration, structure, climate and soils; the second with the twenty Natural Regions. The third part deals with environments as related to Man. Various chapters describe the Spread of Settlement, Fish, Fur, Forests, Paper-pulp resources and Crops. The last chapters describe Mining, Manufactures, Communications and Population Problems.
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