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Published by Goose Lane Editions with the assistance of the Canada Council, the Department of Canadian Heritage, and the New Brunswick Department of Municipalities, Culture and Housing, 1997.
The author is grateful for the assistance of his daughter, Nancy MacDougall, and his mother, Irma Snow. Some of the material in Safe and Sound appears in slightly different form in the training manuals written by the author for his Search and Rescue courses.
Edited by Laurel Boone.
Cover illustration © Lloyd Fitzgerald, 1996. Reproduced with
permission of the artist.
Illustrations by Michael Brislain, 1997.
Author photograph by Geoffrey Gammon.
Cover and interior design by Julie Scriver.
Printed in Canada.
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Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Snow, Gordon, 1938-
Safe and sound
ISBN 0-86492-222-1
I. Wilderness survival. I. Title.
GV200.5.S66 1997 6I3.6′9 C97-95006I-3
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