B000IYYEIM Hardcover, no dust jacket, 324 pages, 1938 'First Published' date, Peter Davies - London publishers (English import). Full title: A Book of Grey Owl: Pages from the Writings of Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin. Editor: E. E. Reynolds, with preface by Lovat Dickson, ASIN number: B000IYYEIM. Usually ships with delivery confirmation. Book shows only very slight wear. In the early part of the 20th Century an immigrant from Britain assumed the guise of a part Native American to Candada after working as a trapper and associating with the Ojibwe people and subsequently wrote many popular books about the the great Northern wilderness which enchanted 1930s readers with its vivid detail. From the preface: A Book of Grey Owl contains selections from all Grey Owl's written work so far published. The four books left behind by Grey Owl form the most vivid record we have in literature of that vast, silent and remote land called the Wilderness, which stretches across the whole of the North American Continent. Though it is called the Wilderness, it is not waste or barren land. In these tremendous forests, broken by innumerable lakes, there is both animal and human life which lives much as it did centuries . ago. Civilisation, like ripples from a restless lake, has lapped against its fringes, altering these but not changing its essential character. Like a great tapestry of grey and green, the Wilderness hangs there, back of civilisation, its mystery known only to those who have penetrated it, who have lived there and suffered pain and hardship, have known the thrill of the danger it offers, and the joy of having conquered its difficulties. Rare copy of the early hardback version.