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AKRIGG, G P V AND HELEN B 1001 British Columbia Place Names
Vancouver, Discovery Press. 1969, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Clear Brodart-protected jacket, Dark green boards, silver lettering; slight bumping to spine ends and front corners; faint toning of page edges; 2-page map of province of British Columbia (with grid for quick reference) across pastedowns and endpapers; neat name on reverse of endpaper. Pictorial dust jacket; some rubbing and edgewear. Very clean, sound copy. 195 pages including grid references. Contents include Prefaces; section linking place names with various stages of province's history. The main part of the book consists of an alphabetical list of 1001 place names and their origins. Carefully researched and documented, the book is filled with remarkable historical facts, interesting anecdotes and brief biographical accounts of the characters for which the Province's towns, cities, rivers, lakes, mountains and islands have become namesakes. Very Good/Good.
Offered for US$ 20.00 by: Literacy Nanaimo - Book number: 002533
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