BOOKS: Beaver Man

TALES OF AN EMPTY CABIN—Grey Owl —Dodd, Mead ($3).

Six years ago a tall Ojibway Indian named Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin, which he translates as Grey Owl, headed west from northern Ontario with a family of beaver. With a view to popularizing his campaign to preserve wild life, Grey Owl had started a colony of these engaging little animals, written books about them, lectured in Canada and England, was rewarded when the Canadian National Park Service provided him with a permanent establishment in Prince Albert National Park (northern Saskatchewan). The mainstays of Grey Owl's beaver...

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