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James Houston, a Canadian author-artist, served with the Toronto Scottish Regiment in World War II, 1940-45, then lived among the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic for twelve years as a Northern Service Officer, and the first Administrator of west Baffin Island, a territory of 65,000 square miles. Widely acknowledged as the prime force in the development of Inuit art, he is past chairman of both the American Indian Arts Centre and the Association on American Indian and Eskimo Cultural Foundation Award, the 1979 Inuit Kuavati Award of Merit, and the 1997 Royal Geographic Society’s Massey Medal, and is an officer of the Order of Canada.
Among his writings, The White Dawn has been published in thirty-one editions worldwide. That novel and Ghost Fox, Spirit Wrestler, and Eagle Song have been selections of major book clubs. Running West won the Canadian Authors Association Book of the Year Award, while his novel, The Ice Master, also appeared in Spanish translation. Author and illustrator of seventeen children’s books, he is the only person to have won the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award three times. His most recent children’s book is Fire and Ice, about creating glass sculpture. He has also written screenplays for feature films, has created numerous documentaries and continues to lecture widely.
His drawings, paintings, and sculptures are internationally represented in many museums including the St. Petersburg Museum in Florida and private collections including that of the King of Saudi Arabia. He is Master Designer for Steuben Glass, with one hundred and ten pieces to his credit. He created the seventy-foot-high central sculpture in the Glenbow-Alberta Art Museum. In 1999 Canada’s National Museum of Civilization devoted its show “Iqqaipaa” to the art of the Arctic in James Houston’s time, and he played a central role in organizing the exhibition.
He and his wife Alice divided their time between a colonial privateer’s house in New England and a writing retreat on the bank of a salmon river on the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia, where he has written a large part of his trilogy of memoirs, Confessions of an Igloo Dweller, Zigzag, and Hideaway.
James Houston passed away in 2005 at the age of 83.
Among his writings, The White Dawn has been published in thirty-one editions worldwide. That novel and Ghost Fox, Spirit Wrestler, and Eagle Song have been selections of major book clubs. Running West won the Canadian Authors Association Book of the Year Award, while his novel, The Ice Master, also appeared in Spanish translation. Author and illustrator of seventeen children’s books, he is the only person to have won the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award three times. His most recent children’s book is Fire and Ice, about creating glass sculpture. He has also written screenplays for feature films, has created numerous documentaries and continues to lecture widely.
His drawings, paintings, and sculptures are internationally represented in many museums including the St. Petersburg Museum in Florida and private collections including that of the King of Saudi Arabia. He is Master Designer for Steuben Glass, with one hundred and ten pieces to his credit. He created the seventy-foot-high central sculpture in the Glenbow-Alberta Art Museum. In 1999 Canada’s National Museum of Civilization devoted its show “Iqqaipaa” to the art of the Arctic in James Houston’s time, and he played a central role in organizing the exhibition.
He and his wife Alice divided their time between a colonial privateer’s house in New England and a writing retreat on the bank of a salmon river on the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia, where he has written a large part of his trilogy of memoirs, Confessions of an Igloo Dweller, Zigzag, and Hideaway.
James Houston passed away in 2005 at the age of 83.
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- EditoreMcClelland & Stewart
- Data di pubblicazione1981
- ISBN 10 0771042566
- ISBN 13 9780771042560
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Descrizione libro Condizione: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Codice articolo 38463786-75
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Long Claws. an Arctic Adventure
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. True first edition in hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Mr. Houston. Name and phone number on the front endpaper in small hand. Jacket has two short tears and crease on front panel, light soiling. Very Good/Very Good. Codice articolo 44231
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Descrizione libro Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. James Houston. (illustratore). First Edition. 32 pp, 8vo (8 3/8" H). B&w illustrations. "Since their father's death, it has been a starvation winter for Pitohok, his siste Upik, their mother, baby sister and grandfather. Frozen lake trout that they find, with the help of a snow owl, provide their first food in three days. Though winter is nearly over, how can they survive when the fish is gone? Their only hope is a frozen caribou their grandfather had buried last fall, three days' walk away, because he was not strong enough to carry it. Pitohok and Upik must make the arduous journey to find the caribou. Using frozen caribou skin, with the remaining fish as cross supports, Grandfather fashions them a primitive sled. Then brother and sister set out on their perilous trek across the storm-swept tundra, sheltering at night in small igloos they build. The caribou is there, they load it on the sled and turn homeward - only to face a terrifying ordeal. A huge barren-ground grizzly bear, know as Long Claws, picks up their trail and follows them. Helped again by a great snow owl when they lose their way in an ice fog, the children are nearly home before the bear closes in. How can they fight him? And yet to give up the caribou means certain death by starvation." Minor edge wear. Dust jacket has very minor edge wear. Codice articolo 20073
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Descrizione libro Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Condizione: Near Fine Plus. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine Plus. James Houston (illustratore). First Edition. Clean, unmarked, and tightly bound. 32 pages. Codice articolo 19237
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 32 p. 21 cm. Minor wear to corners which are still sharp. Jacket has some edgewear, with a stain along top and bottom edges of rear panel, and less so on top of front panel. Crease to rear flap. Numerous pin-point dimple marks on rear. Not price-clipped. Illustrated with pencil drawings by the author. The story of Pitohok and Upik, who are forced to venture out on a trek in the depths of winter to retrieve a frozen caribou for their family to eat. As they make their way, they are tracked by a grizzly bear and must face it. Codice articolo 270
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Descrizione libro Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Houston, James (illustratore). 1st Edition. 33pp. Illustrated by the author. Light blue endpapers. Prev owner stamp on ffep. Blue cloth w black-line illustration on cover, black lettering on spine. Slight wear to corners, bumping to tail. Colour illustrated DJ clean, showing light shelf wear, now preserved in Brodart cover. Octavo. Codice articolo 049340
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