The Making of a Grey Panther: The Derrick Humphreys Story Contributor(s): Humphreys, Derrick (Author), Munro, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0921870442 ISBN-13: 9780921870449 Publisher: Ronsdale Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1997 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Political |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 97121818 |
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.08" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 296 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "The Making of a Grey Panther" is a superb biography, a life of adventure that begins in Dickensian England before World War I, then moves to the Western Australian mining frontier of the 1930s and 1940s, with excursions into the New Guinea campaign in World War II, the De Beers' South African diamond empire, a foreign aid project in Brazil and the rebuilding of the townsite at Churchill, Manitoba in the mid-1970s. For many years Humphreys was the mayor of West Vancouver. His memoir of life in office offers the finest published account to date of the ins and outs, the personalities, and the bare-knuckled fights that have marked the politics of North and West Vancouver for over a decade. |