A Name for Himself: A Biography of Thomas Head Raddall

by Barkhouse Joyce and Joyce Barkhouse

"Twelve months in any place, my friend, is quite a weary while And seems more like a century when lived on Sable Isle ..."

So wrote Thomas Raddall at the age of eighteen, not dreaming that many years later Sable Island -- that "hell on earth" -- would provide a romantic background for one of his greatest novels, The Nymph and the Lamp.

Traumatized by the horror of the great Halifax Explosion of 1917, followed in a few months by the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0920474586
• ISBN13: 9780920474587
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Natural Heritage Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7