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In 1929, at the age of 24, Elliott Merrick left his position as an advertising executive in New Jersey and headed up to Labrador to work as an unpaid volunteer for the Grenfell Mission. In 1933 he wrote True North about his experiences in the northern wilderness, living and working with trappers, Indians and with the nurse he met and married in a remote community. The book describes the hard work and severe conditions, along with the joy and friendship he and his wife experienced.
Hardcover:
9780803231405 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, February 1, 1989, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In 1929, at the age of 24, Elliott Merrick left his position as an advertising executive in New Jersey and headed up to Labrador to work as an unpaid volunteer for the Grenfell Mission.
Paperback:
9781933937007 | Heron Dance Pr Inc, March 1, 2006, cover price $19.95
9780975564998 | Heron Dance Pr Inc, December 1, 2005, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: In 1929, at the age of 24, Elliott Merrick left his position as an advertising executive in New Jersey and headed up to Labrador to work as an unpaid volunteer for the Grenfell Mission.
9780803281646 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, March 1, 1989, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In 1929, at the age of 24, Elliott Merrick left his position as an advertising executive in New Jersey and headed up to Labrador to work as an unpaid volunteer for the Grenfell Mission.
Hardcover:
9781585747672 | Lyons Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Describes the journey the author and his wife took from Georgia to Maine and back again in a twenty-foot keel sloop they built themselves.
Paperback:
9781592286355 | Lyons Pr, June 1, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A retired "working stiff" realizes his dream of becoming a cruising sailor.
Product Description: The Winter Wilderness Companion is a unique and inspirational guide to outdoor skills from authors named to Outside magazine's exclusive list of 12 "Twentieth Century Heroes for a New Millennium." This revised edition unlocks the winter wilderness in all its invigorating beauty...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780071364171 | Rev sub edition (McGraw-Hill, August 1, 2000), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Winter Wilderness Companion is a unique and inspirational guide to outdoor skills from authors named to Outside magazine's exclusive list of 12 "Twentieth Century Heroes for a New Millennium.
A story about the thrills and perils of renovating an old farm on a shoestring, a warm and wise book about living simply in the country while pursuing the writer's craft. In 1934, in the depths of the Great Depression, Elliott Merrick and his wife bought a ramshackle farm on a Vermont hillside for $1,000. Merrick, a young writer with a healthy dose of idealism and a determination to live in the country, had just sold his first book to Maxwell Perkins at Scribner's. "I had an idea that I would be rich and famous henceforth," Merrick wrote, but added, "nothing could be farther from the truth . . . As I look back, I'm amazed that we could so blithely have crossed our great Rubicon on a spiderweb. But it turned out to be one of those fortunate mistakesâone of those fraught-with-peril enterprises that you might never have embarked on if you had known the consequencesâlike being born, for instance." Green Mountain Farm describes Merrick's and his family's often haphazard attempts to make a go of it on these stony, wintry acres, in a house that was falling down around them. As Merrick puts it, "We did everything wrong, but it came out right." They were dirt poor, but through it all, believed wholeheartedly in going directly after the things they wanted most: to write and to farm, however they could. A lyrical, funny, richly fulfilling book about old houses, farming, writing, and the joys of country life, this book is as fresh today as when it was originally published more than fifty years ago.
Hardcover:
9780960332403 | Sherry Urie, July 1, 1978, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A story about the thrills and perils of renovating an old farm on a shoestring, a warm and wise book about living simply in the country while pursuing the writer's craft.
Paperback:
9780881504354 | Countryman Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $19.95
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9780881502992 | Reprint edition (Countryman Pr, November 1, 1994), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Relates the adventures of Australian nurse Kate Austen in Labrador during the late 1920s and early 1930s, where she helped provide medical care for the residents of the harsh subarctic region at the Grenfell Mission
Paperback:
9780891010746 | Univ of Maine Pr, December 1, 1991, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: used - good
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