Copyright © 2010 Frances Hern
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Originally published by Heritage House Publishing Co. Ltd. in 2010 in paperback with
ISBN 978-1-926613-29-1.
This electronic edition was released in 2011.
e-pub ISBN: 978-1-926936-13-0
e-PDF ISBN: 978-1-926936-35-2
Cataloguing data available from Library and Archives Canada
Edited by Lesley Reynolds
Cover painting of HMS Alert and Discovery on the Arctic expedition of 1865-66 by William Frederick Mitchell, Fine Art Photographic Library/CORBIS (AALQ001794)
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