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How to identify plants
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26230
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1957
- Author
- Harrington, H.D.
- Publisher
- Chicago : The Swallow Press Inc.
- Call Number
- 04.1 H24h
- Author
- Harrington, H.D.
- Responsibility
- Illustrations by L.W. Durrell
- Publisher
- Chicago : The Swallow Press Inc.
- Published Date
- 1957
- Physical Description
- 296 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Subjects
- Guidebook
- Identification
- Botany
- Plants
- Science
- Illustrations
- Contents
- Introduction -- How plants are classified -- Common names and scientific names -- Terms relative to the flower -- Terms relative to the inflorescence -- Terms relative to underground parts -- Terms relative to the stem -- Terms relative to the leaves -- Terms relative to surfaces -- General terms -- Fruits and seeds -- Use of keys in plant identification -- Collecting and pressing plants -- Manuals and floras -- Illustrated glossary.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0804001499
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04.1 H24h
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Adventures of an alpine guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26177
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1932
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Edition
- 1st (English)
- Call Number
- 01.2 K71a
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Responsibility
- Translation by Erwin and Pleasaunce Von Gaisberg. Edited with additional chapters by H. E. G. Tyndale
- Edition
- 1st (English)
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Published Date
- 1932
- Physical Description
- 329 pages
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.2 K71a
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The golden grindstone : the adventures of George M. Mitchell
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26172
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Publisher
- Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch
- Call Number
- 08.2 G76g
- Responsibility
- Recorded by Angus Graham
- Publisher
- Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch
- Published Date
- 1935
- Contents
- I. The general idea -- II. The geographical problem -- III. The immigrant train -- IV. Edmonton -- V. Athbasca landing -- VI. The Athabasca River -- VII. Grand rapids -- VIII. The Slave River -- IX. Great Slave Lake -- X. Fort Simpson -- XI. The Mackenzie River -- XII. Fort McPherson --XIII. The Eskimo -- XIV. The first traffic with the Indians -- XV. The Peel River -- The upper Peel River and the valley of noises -- XVII. Gold -- XVIII. The winter camp -- XIX. Prospecting and exploration -- XX. Bears and wolves -- XXI. The winter night -- XXII. The Indians' visit -- XXIII. Dogs -- XXIV. The broken knee -- XXV. The last of the white men -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVII. Caribou -- XXVIII. The old lady -- XXIX. Famine and riot -- XXX. Mitchell becomes an Indian -- XXXI. An Indian "Veillee" -- XXXII. Women -- XXXIII. The closest shave of all -- XXXIV. The skin boats -- XXXV. Summer hunting -- XXXVI. Mitchell remains an Indian -- XXXVII. The last of the Indians.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
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- 08.2 G76g
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The high Alps : a natural history of ice and snow
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26164
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1931
- Author
- Tutton, A. E. H.
- Publisher
- London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Call Number
- 03 T89t
- Author
- Tutton, A. E. H.
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Publisher
- London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1931
- Physical Description
- 317 pages
- Contents
- PART I -- I. Introduction -- II. The evolution of our knowledge of water and ice -- III. The physical relationships of water and ice -- IV. The crystal structure of ice and snow -- V. Optical, thermal, and electrical properties of ice -- VI. Plasticity, viscosity, and elasticity of ice -- VII. Artificial ice production, river and ground ice, arctic and antarctic ice -- PART II -- VIII. The Alps, the ice and snow mountains of central Europe and their call -- IX. Nature and geological character of the Alps -- X. Situations of the ranges, peaks, and glaciers of the Alps -- XI. Snow-caps and glaciers and their movements -- XII. Crevasses, bergschrunds, and seracs ; dirt-bands and veins ; moraines and glacier lakes -- XIII. How the great summits have been conquered -- PART III -- XIV. Expeditions in the Bernese Oberland -- XV. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps, Monte Rosa -- Matterhorn section -- XVI. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps. Zinai, ferpecle and arolla section -- XVII. Expeditions in the chain of Mont Blanc -- XVIII. The ascent of Mont Blanc. Scientific work on the mountain -- XIX. Expeditions in the Graian and Dauphine Alps -- XX. Expeditions in the Bernina Alps and ortler group.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
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- 03 T89t
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The romance of mountaineering
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26157
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Author
- Irving, R. L. G.
- Publisher
- London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Call Number
- 01 Ir8t
- Author
- Irving, R. L. G.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1935
- Physical Description
- 320 pages ; 40 ill.
- Contents
- PART ONE: BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS -- Introductory and personal -- Lux in tenebris -- The winning of Mont Blanc -- The growth of understanding -- The great peaks are won -- PART TWO: SIGNS OF MATURITY -- The extension of the playground -- The old leading-strings are dropped -- Mechanization and the cult of danger -- The highest mountains in the world -- Nationality in mountaineering -- PART THREE: PERPETUAL YOUTH -- Methods of approach -- Mountaineering out of season -- Solidary mountaineering -- Solvitur in excelsis.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01 Ir8t
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In the shadow of Mount McKinley
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26160
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1931
- Author
- Beach, William N.
- Publisher
- New York ; The Derrydale Press
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Call Number
- 02.3 B36i
- Author
- Beach, William N.
- Responsibility
- Foreword by John Burnhalm ; Introduction by Robert Sterling Yard ; Illustrations by Carl Rungius
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- New York ; The Derrydale Press
- Published Date
- 1931
- Physical Description
- 289 pages ; 63 ill.
- Contents
- Foreword / John Burnham -- I. Introduction / Robert Sterling Yard -- II. In the shadow of Mt. McKinley -- III. Along the north side of the Alaskan range to Mt. Dall: expedition of 1925 -- IV. Jenny of Mt. McKinley -- V. Rainy Pass, saddle of the range: expedition of 1926 -- VI. Exploration of 1930 -- VII. Early exploration and later developments in the Mt. McKinley country -- VIII. Mt. McKinley National Park -- IX. American big game animals: mountain sheep, caribou, moose, deer and elk, bear, goat -- X. On conservation of big game.
- Notes
- Special Edition: 750 copies printed.
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- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 02.3 B36i
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Invertebrate fossils
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25667
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1952
- Author
- Moore, Raymond C., Lalicker, Cecil G., and Fischer, Alfred G.
- Publisher
- New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
- Call Number
- 04 M78i
- Publisher
- New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
- Published Date
- 1952
- Physical Description
- 766 pages
- Subjects
- Fossils
- Invertebrate
- Geology
- Contents
- 1. The nature of fossils -- 2. Foraminifera and radiolaria -- 3. Sponges and spongelike fossils -- 4. Coelenterates -- 5. Bryozoans -- 6. Brachiopods -- 7. Mollusks -- 8. Gastropods -- 9. Cephalopods -- 10. Pelecypods -- 11. Annelids and other worms -- 12. Arthropods -- 13. Trilobites -- 14. Ostracodes and other crustaceans -- 15. Chelicerates, myriapods, and insects -- 16. Echinoderms -- 17. Primitive attached echinoderms -- 18. Crinoids -- 19. Holothuroids -- 20. Starfishes -- 21. Echinoids -- 22. Graptolites and pterobranchs -- 23. Condonts
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- 2021.20
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- 04 M78i
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The study of rocks in thin section
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25662
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- Moorhouse, W. W.
- Publisher
- New York and Evanston : Harper & Row
- Call Number
- 03 M78t
- Author
- Moorhouse, W. W.
- Publisher
- New York and Evanston : Harper & Row
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 514 pages : illustrations, 25 cm
- Series
- Harper's geoscience series
- Subjects
- Petrology
- Geology
- Science
- mineralogy
- Contents
- 1. Introduction. -- 2. Methods of optical mineralogy -- 3. Description of minerals -- 4. Mineral identification tables -- 5. Petrography of igneous rocks and related rocks -- 6. Volcanic and hypabyssal rocks : basalts, diabases, and related rocks -- 7. Andesites, dacites, and related rocks -- 8. quartz latites (rhyodacites) and rhyolites -- 9. Latites, trachytes, phonolites, and leucite trachytes -- 10. tuffs and pyroclastics -- 11. The plutonic rocks : gabbro, norite, and related rocks -- 12. The alkali gabbos : essexite, theralite, and related rocks -- 13. Quartz diorite, granodiorite, granite, and related rocks -- 14. Diorites, monzonites, syenites, and related rocks -- 15. Nepheline syenites and other delfspathoidal rocks -- 16. Ultrabasic rocks : peridotite, pyrozenite, and hornblendite -- 17. Lamprophyres -- 18. Sedimentary rocks in thin section -- 19. Conglomerates and breccias -- 20. Sandstones and arkoses -- 21. Greywackes -- 22. Argillaceous rocks -- 23. Limestones and dolomites -- 24. Cherts, iron formations, glauconitic sediments, phosphatic sediments, saline rocks, and coals -- 25. Metamorphic rocks -- 26. Dynamic metamorphism -- 27. Thermal metamorphism -- 28. Regional metamorphism -- 29. Metasomatism -- 30. Petrography of ore
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- 9780060446109
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 03 M78t
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The rise of American civilization : Volume One
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25559
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1930
- Author
- Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard
- Publisher
- New York : The MacMillan Company
- Call Number
- 08 B38t
- Responsibility
- Decorations by Wilfred Jones
- Publisher
- New York : The MacMillan Company
- Published Date
- 1930
- Subjects
- American
- American Civil War
- History
- Colonialism
- War
- Politics
- Contents
- I. England's Colonial Secret ; II. Laying the Structural Base of the Thirteen Colonies ; III. The Growth of Economic and Poltical Power ; IV. Provincial America ; V. The Clash of Metropolis and Colony ; VI. Independence and Civil Conflict ; VII. Populism and Reaction ; VIII. The Rise of National Parties ; IX. Agricultural Imperialism and the Balance of Power ; X. The The Young Republic ; XI. New Agricultural States ; XII. Jacksonian Democracy -- A Triumphant Farmer-Labor Party ; XIII. Westward to the Pacific ; XIV. The Sweep of Economic Forces ; XV. The Politics of the Economic Drift ; XVI. Democracy: Romantic and Realistic
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- 3069A
- Call Number
- 08 B38t
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A little town and a little girl
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25549
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1951
- Author
- Carr, Emily
- Publisher
- Toronto : Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited
- Call Number
- 06 C23a
- Author
- Carr, Emily
- Responsibility
- With a Foreword by Ira Dilworth
- Publisher
- Toronto : Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited
- Published Date
- 1951
- Physical Description
- xvii, 124 pages
- Abstract
- Emily Carr describes her life in Victoria, British Columbia.
- Contents
- Beginnings ; James' Bay and Dallas Road ; Silence and Pioneers ; Saloons and Roadhouses ; Ways of Getting Round ; Father's Store ; New Neighbours ; Visiting Matrons ; Servants ; East and West ; Cathedral ; Cemetery ; Schools ; Christmas ; Regatta ; Characters ; Loyalty ; Doctor and Dentist ; Chain Gang ; Cook Street ; Waterworks ; From Carr Street to James' Bay ; Grown Up
- Accession Number
- 3069A
- Call Number
- 06 C23a
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Pioneer days of Nakusp and the Arrow Lakes
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25555
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- August 20, 1951
- Author
- Johnson, Kate
- Publisher
- Nakusp : Kate Johnson
- Call Number
- 08.2 J62p
- Author
- Johnson, Kate
- Publisher
- Nakusp : Kate Johnson
- Published Date
- August 20, 1951
- Physical Description
- 146 pages
- Subjects
- Kootenay
- Kootenay region
- History
- Abstract
- History of Nakusp written for the Nakusp Diamond Jubliee (1892-1952).
- Accession Number
- 3069A
- Call Number
- 08.2 J62p
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Adventures of an alpine guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3275
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1932
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Call Number
- 01.2 K69
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Responsibility
- translated from the 3rd German ed. by Erwin and Pleasaunce von Gaisberg
- edited with additional chapters by H. E. G. Tyndale
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Published Date
- 1932
- Physical Description
- xiii, 329p. : ill., ports, map
- Accession Number
- 1886
- 5891 - weed
- Call Number
- 01.2 K69
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In the shadow of Mount McKinley
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3289
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1931
- Author
- Beach, William Nicholas
- Publisher
- New York : Derrydale Press
- Call Number
- 01.3 B35
- Author
- Beach, William Nicholas
- Responsibility
- foreword by John Burnham
- introduction by Robert Sterling Yard
- illustrated from paintings by Carl Rungius and from photographs by the author
- Publisher
- New York : Derrydale Press
- Published Date
- 1931
- Physical Description
- xiii, 289p. : ill., ports., map
- Notes
- Signed by author;3350 -
- Accession Number
- 492
- 3350
- Call Number
- 01.3 B35
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Round Mystery Mountain : a ski adventure
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3336
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Author
- Watson, Sir Norman
- Publisher
- London : E. Arnold
- Call Number
- 01.4 C63w
- Author
- Watson, Sir Norman
- Responsibility
- Sir Norman Watson and Edward J. King
- Publisher
- London : E. Arnold
- Published Date
- 1935
- Physical Description
- xii, 246p. : ill., ports, maps
- Subjects
- Waddington, Mount
- Accession Number
- 220 - weed
- 411 - missing?
- 1039 - keep
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- 01.4 C63w
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Ski-ing from A-Z : an instructional film...
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3400
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1939
- Author
- Amstutz, Walter
- Publisher
- London : Oxford University Press
- Call Number
- 01.5 Am8
- Author
- Amstutz, Walter
- Publisher
- London : Oxford University Press
- Published Date
- 1939
- Physical Description
- 1v. (unpaged) : ill
- Accession Number
- 400 - weed
- 5199
- Call Number
- 01.5 Am8
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60 centuries of skiing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3427
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Author
- Dudley, Charles M
- Publisher
- Brattleboro (VT) : Stephen Daye
- Call Number
- 01.5 D86
- Author
- Dudley, Charles M
- Publisher
- Brattleboro (VT) : Stephen Daye
- Published Date
- 1935
- Physical Description
- 207p. : ill., ports
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 400
- 4083 - weeded
- Call Number
- 01.5 D86
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Improve your skiing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3441
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1936
- Author
- Hall, Frederick A
- Publisher
- New York : Dodge
- Call Number
- 01.5 H14
- Author
- Hall, Frederick A
- Responsibility
- Frederick A. Hall and Nathaniel A. Benson
- Publisher
- New York : Dodge
- Published Date
- 1936
- Physical Description
- 221p. : ill
- Accession Number
- 478 - weed
- 3350
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- 01.5 H14
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We found peace
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5714
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1953
- Author
- Campbell, Gray
- Publisher
- Toronto : Thomas Allen
- Call Number
- 03.6 C15
- Author
- Campbell, Gray
- Publisher
- Toronto : Thomas Allen
- Published Date
- 1953
- Physical Description
- 244p. : ill
- Subjects
- Ranching
- Whyte, Catharine Robb
- Whyte, Peter
- Notes
- 3069A copy signed by author to Peter and Catharine Whyte with accompanying letter from author and newsclipping
- Accession Number
- 400
- 3069A - 3 copies - weeded 2 unsigned 2020-12-08
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- 03.6 C15
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Away to the Canadian Rockies and British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3887
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1938
- Author
- Brinley, Gordon
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Call Number
- 02.6 B77 c.1
- 02.6 B77 c.2
- Author
- Brinley, Gordon
- Responsibility
- illustrated by D. Putnam Brinley
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Published Date
- 1938
- Physical Description
- X, 301 P. Illus., Map (On Lining Papers)
- Subjects
- Rungius, Carl
- Moore, Philip
- Luxton, Norman
- McLean, George
- Brewster family
- Whyte, Dorothy V
- Gibbon, John Murray
- Accession Number
- 323
- 400
- 1482 - weeded 2020-12-08
- 7864 - weeded 2020-12-08
- 2019.71 - weeded 2020-12-08
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- 02.6 B77 c.1
- 02.6 B77 c.2
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Tiger of the Snows : the autobiography of Tenzing of Everest
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25168
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1955
- Author
- Tenzing Norkey
- Publisher
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Call Number
- 01.1 T26u
- Author
- Tenzing Norkey
- Responsibility
- written in collaboration with james Ramsey Ullman
- Publisher
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Published Date
- 1955
- Physical Description
- 294 pages : illustrations, maps
- Notes
- Includes dust jacket
- Accession Number
- 492
- Call Number
- 01.1 T26u
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