Author: Barkhouse, Joyce
Title: Name for Himself, a: a Biography of Thomas Head Raddall
Description: Toronto: Canada: National Heritage/National History Inc. 1990. 0920474586. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine. Revised Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.86. previously published 1986 by Irwin Publishing Inc. Known as one of Canada' greatest story tellers, he lived through the 1917 Halifax Explosion, at the age of 15 became a marine telegrapher and served at sea before he was posted to remote Sable Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia. He then bought a typewriter and became a writer. This is the story of his courage, his suffering and his successes through all his experiences. Fine.

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