GREY OWL = WA-SHA-QUIN-ASIN [ PSEUDONYM OF ARCHIBALD STANSFELD BELANEY] — Tales of an Empty Cabin

London, Peter Davies. 1947, Reprint. Hardcover. Book, Tales of an Empty Cabin is a collection of essays and short stories, Book One: Tales of the Canadian Northland" contains stories of the Canadian North, including an extended story, "The Tree", about the life of a jack-pine. "Book Two: Mississauga" recounts stories based on Grey Owl's experiences as a forest ranger in the Mississagi Forest Reserve. "Book Three: Ajawaan" consists of essays about the animals that Grey Owl observed and befriended in his position as "caretaker of park animals" in Prince Albert National Park." [Archibald Stansfeld Belaney 1888-1938] commonly known as Grey Owl, was an English-Canadian popular writer, public speaker and conservationist.] Born an Englishman he presented himself as an Indigenous person. in the latter years of his life he passed as half-Indian, claiming he was the son of a Scottish man and an Apache woman] N334p. + plates. Neat tight vintage copy. Paper age-toned. Dt slighty chipped. Near Fine/Good with slight chips & Tear.