Description: Biography of a Grizzly, Paperback by Seton, Ernest Thompson, ISBN 1979718377, ISBN-13 9781979718370, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Ernest Thompson Seton (August 14, 1860 – October 23, 1946) was an author (published in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the US), wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians in 1902 (renamed Woodcraft League of America) and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) in 1910. Seton also influenced Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting. His notabls related to Scouting include The Birch Bark Roll and the Boy Scout Handbook. He is responsible for the appropriation and incorporation of what he believed to be American Indian elements into the traditions of the Thompson Seton, born Ernest Evan Thompson in South Shields, County Durham (now part of South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear), England of Scottish parents. Seton's family emigrated to Canada in 1866. Most of his childhood was spent in Toronto, Ontario. As a youth, he retreated to the woods to draw and study animals as a way of avoiding his abusive father. He won a scholarship in art to the Royal Academy in London, his twenty-first birthday, Seton's father presented him with an invoice for all the expenses connected with his childhood and youth, including the fee charged by the doctor who delivered him. He paid the bill, but never spoke to his father again
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Book Title: Biography of a Grizzly. By: Ernest Thompson Seton. / with 75 Drawings /
Number of Pages: 96 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
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Publication Year: 2017
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Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 7.1 Oz
Author: Ernest Thompson Seton
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