LABRADOR DAYS: TALES OF THE SEA TOILERS

by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

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First edition

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. Octavo, inserted frontispiece, original powder-blue cloth stamped in white. First edition. Grenfell, an English physician and advocate of the muscular Christianity so characteristic of the Victorian period, went to sea as a medical missionary and, after discovering the woeful conditions of people including English emigres in Labrador, Canada, devoted the rest of his

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