Ralph Edwards of Lonesome Lake

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Often called The Crusoe of Lonesome Lake, because of a best-selling book written by the American journalist Leland Stowe, Edwards has gone on to live at least one more life and reveals himself to be a pioneer of a breed that no longer exists. Best known for his almost single-handed rescue of the trumpeter swans from extinction in North America, Edwards now related in his own words other aspects of his long, varied life, including experience with his missionary parents in India, as a telegraph operator under fire in World War I and his eventual return to Lonesome Lake.
Author(s): Ralph A. Edwards, Ed Gould
Document: Book · Hardcover · CIRC [ 1 ]
Edition: 1st Edition
Published: 1979
Physical Description: 293 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Genre: Biographies
Contents:
  1. In the End Was the Beginning
  2. Looking Backwards
  3. A Dream is Seen
  4. A Lake for the Naming
  5. Bears in the Backyard
  6. An Army Interlude
  7. Peace and Almost Quiet
  8. No Longer Lonesome at Lonesome Lake
  9. The Population Grows
  10. Farming for Fur
  11. One Thing After Another
  12. Keeper of the Swans
  13. If Swans Can Fly, So Can I!
  14. Wings Over the Wilds
  15. Further Flights and Fancies
  16. Nature Has Her Way
  17. Good Shots, Bad Shots, Guides and Other Fools
  18. Fame but not Fortune Comes to Lonesome Lake
  19. New Horizons
  20. High and Low Tides
  21. Lessons In Survival
Subjects:

Biographies, British Columbia, Conservationistes Canada Biographies, Edwards, Ralph A, Edwards, Ralph A., d. 1977, Frontier and pioneer life, Frontier and pioneer life British Columbia Lonesome Lake region, Lonesome Lake Region (B.C.) Biography, Lonesome Lake region, B.C Biography, Pioneers, Pioneers British Columbia Biography, Pioneers British Col
Related Places: Lonesome Lake ,  Central Coast Regional District

 

Circulation

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Collection Resource Available Edition Published Publisher
The Cascade District: Encyclopedia Library Book Hardcover 1st Edition 1979 Hancock House, Saanichton, B.C., 1979

 

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