Frances and the Crees - Shipley, Nan

Clean, tight, unmarked; gift inscription on turned corner of ffep; several closed chips and tears to edges of dust jacket; lightly age tanned; unfaded magenta dust jacket with b&w illustration of a woman sitting over an injured person while a man has his back turned calling for help; otherwise minimal wear; This story is written from the perspective of a white woman in 1950s Canada and includes many stereotypes about Indigenous people that were common in that time period. "This is the story of the wife of Dr. Fred Stevens around the Fisher River area... In 1897 transportation was by barge and birchbark canoe in summer, by carriole and snowshoe in winter. She displayed a courageous interest in her husband's work even to facing danger by starvation, and hostile Indians when they visited bands that had never before seen a white woman or been visited by a missionary."(From the book)
Illustrator: Hoogstraten, Neil
Very Good in Good dust jacket
Hardcover
Ryerson Press
1957
Toronto, ON