Toronto, Ontario: Toronto, ON: Viking, Date: 1997, 1st Edition, First Printing, 1997. -----------( 1st Printing of the First Edition ) --hardcover, a Near Fine example, in a lightly rubbed Near Fine dustjacket--- 290 pages,--- contents include: The Mountain and the Valley; Man, God and the Godless; The Clans; Esther and the Mountain; White Rock; Sandra Comes in from the Cold; The Clan; A Bad Thing to Do to a Little Girl; Stella's Boys; And the Rest; The Women; The Other Side of the Clan; Conviction; In the Shadow of the South Mountain; Return to South Mountain; Epilogue --- from the front flap ---"The Annapolis Valley is one of the most beautiful places on the face of the earth. Apple blossoms, lush farms and lovely, secluded beaches have graced photographs and postcards without number. But there has been a dark evil within this idyllic land for more than two hundred years. Overlooking the Valley is South Mountain, a long ridge of hills covered by dense forests which conceal tiny hamlets and isolated clusters of shacks set in small clearings. For most of the last two centuries it has been home to the 'Clans' -- thirty or so tight family groupings,living in their various Mountain enclaves [in] the kind of poverty and deprivation associated only with the world's poorest nations. Then one day, a fourteen-year-old Mountain girl told authorities that her father had been 'using her as a wife'. This revelation sparked a massive investigation which ...

Toronto: Viking - The Penguin Group, Date: 1997. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 290 pp. Gray boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Illustrated with a map and a Goler Family tree. The Chapters are: The Mountain and the Valley; Man, God and the Godless; The Clans; Esther and the Mountain; White Rock; Sandra Comes in from the Cold; The Clan; A Bad Thing to Do to a Little Girl; Stella's Boys; And the Rest; The Women; The Other Side of the Clan; Conviction; In the Shadow of the South Mountain; and Return to South Mountain; followed by an epilogue.. 1997. Viking - The Penguin Group ISBN 0670873888 9780670873883 [CA]

Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. ISBN 0670873888 9780670873883 [US]

Toronto: Viking/Penguin Group, Date: 1997. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Fine+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾. A social history of the Mountain and the Valley." Note to Readers. Map: ' South Mountain '. Goler Family Tree. 275 pp. plus: Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgments. Book has as-new gilt text on spine only. Very narrow band of sunning at spine ends. Unclipped DJ has slight top edge wear. Bookseller's inventory # 180344. 1997. Viking/Penguin Group ISBN 0670873888 9780670873883 [CA]

ISBN10: 0670873888, ISBN13: 9780670873883, [publisher: Viking / Penguin, Toronto] Hardcover First Edition ------# 012211- The scan you see is the book you get. Blue boards with gilt, headband, 290 pages plus double page map & a double page family tree, Near Fine condition, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. "The Valley's dark secrets are revealed by veteran writers David Cruise & Alison Griffiths in this mesmerizing account of what has gone on behind the picture postcard. For over a century, church officials, academics, politicians, teachers, social workers & doctors knew what was happening on South Mountain (incest)--but they chose to look the other way." Check out the scans. Size: 8vo
[Hamilton, ON, Canada] [Publication Year: 1997]
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