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Grenfell of Labrador
Author(s): Johnston, James
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Volume Condition: | Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | N/A |
| Dust Jacket Protection: | N/A |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
| Signature: | None |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | S W Partridge and Co |
| Publication Place: | London, UK |
| Book ID: | 000102 |
| Catalogue(s): | Autobiography and Biography ◇ Decorative and Pictorial Bindings |
[1908] 192pp. Map & 26 monochrome plate illustrations. Pictorial (three colour) cloth binding showing Grenfell on sledge with dogs; and an art nouveau flower decoration to spine. Portrait frontispiece with facsimile dedication and signature. 12mo. Boards lightly rubbed at edges, small tears at head and heel of spine & mild marks on reverse. Pages tanned at edges. In 1887 Wilfred Thomason Grenfell joined the Royal National Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen as a medical missionary. After serving for five years in this capacity from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay, he became a master mariner, and fitted out the mission's first hospital ship. In 1892 he visited Labrador, where he was so greatly shocked by what he later described as 'the poverty and ignorance and semi-starvation among English speaking people of our own race' that he decided to devote the rest of his life to the betterment of the lot of the people of Labrador.
Keywords:
Labrador
Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Hospital Ship
Royal National Mission
Pictorial Bindings
