Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 6–10: John Franklin / Marshall McLuhan / Phyllis Munday / Wilfrid Laurier / Nellie McClung

ISBN-10: 1459723961
ISBN-13: 9781459723962
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Pages: 970
Language: English
Published: 2013-11-12
Publisher: Dundurn
Authors: Judith Fitzgerald, John Wilson, Kathryn Bridge

Description

This bundle of titles in the Quest Biography series entertainingly presents a variety of influential Canadian lives. In this volume we find doomed explorer John Franklin, philosopher and media guru Marshall McLuhan, mountaineer Phyllis Munday, Prime Minster Wilfrid Laurier, and early feminist Nellie McClung.

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