Author: Dan McCowan, FZS. Published by The MacMillan Company of Canada Limited, Toronto, ON., 1948. 1st Edition. Printed in Canada by T. H. Best Printing Co., Toronto. A Very Good Condition HARDCOVER Book, no dust jacket. Clean inside, except a small company stamp on inside front cover. Illustrated by the author, sketches by Bruce Horsfall, and many beautiful B&W nature photographs. Green cloth cover with gold lettering on spine, minor sun-fade. 294 pages.
"THE author of the book under review displays more than a speaking acquaintance with the natural history of both the Old and the New Worlds. Since his boyhood days in Scotland, Mr. McCowan has been an ardent student of Nature in the field, and his migration to Canada many years ago merely served to intensify his curiosity concerning the why and wherefore of all things animate and inanimate. He is no armchair naturalist." -Reviewed by A. E. CAMERON.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Daniel McCowan, naturalist, lecturer, writer (Born Crieff, Scotland, 20 Jan 1882 -- died Cloverdale, BC., 19 Feb 1956). After an early education in Scotland, he moved to Banff, Alberta, Canada, where he soon acquired expertise on the local flora and fauna. His thousands of photographs of scenery, flowers, birds and mammals enabled him to travel widely, lecturing on nature in the Rockies, and he wrote extensively for several newspapers and popular magazines. His lectures on CBC Radio were among the first by naturalists.
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