From the Land of Shadows: The Making of Grey Owl
by Donald B. Smith
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This biography of Grey Owl, the subject of a forthcoming Richard Attenborough film staring Pierce Brosnan, describes the transformation of a lonely upper middle-class British schoolboy into a proud North American Indian - & successful impostor - who preached a philosophy of harmony with nature.Tags
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Donald B. Smith has been a professor of Canadian history at the University of Calgary since 1974.
Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Archibald Stanley Belaney; Grey Owl
- Important places
- Ontario, Canada; Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK; Temagami, Ontario, Canada; Saskatchewan, Canada
- Related movies
- Grey Owl (1999 | IMDb)
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature, History
- DDC/MDS
- 639.9 — Applied science & technology Agriculture Hunting, fishing, conservation, related technologies Conservation of biological resources
- LCC
- E90 .G75 .S65 — History of the United States America Indians of North America
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- 43
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- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 5
