First UK edition, first printing (previously published in the USA). 272pp, profusely illustrated with full page and in text line drawings. Coloured maps on endpapers. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt motif on upper panel, gilt titles to spine. 8vo. Boards gently pushed and rubbed at corners and spine ends. Text block edges dust darkened. Gift inscription, dated 1951, neatly inked on the half title page else internally neat, clean, bright and tight; volume a little musty. In its original dust wrapper, browned, chapped and chipped at edges with some minor loss at spine ends and edges, shelf worn, discoloured on interior.
From the book blurb: "The son of a former Canadian lumberman, John Rowlands took to the woods at an early age. Later, for six years, he prospected the gold and silver country in Upper Ontario and Quebec. Now, again, when the old call of the northlands became irresistible, he and his friend Henry Kane, headed once more to Hudson Bay. From his early experiences and from this latest renewal of them, he has written this refreshing story of contentment and simple living through twelve months of the year."
