Grey Owl -- 1888-1938, Canada, Conservationists, Conservationists -- Canada -- Biography, Indigenous peoples -- North America, Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Biography 

"Grey Owl went to his last resting place on Lake Ajawaan as he would have wished. As the sun set the burial party turned back to town, leaving Grey Owl among the birches and pines he so much loved.

What strange story lay buried with this inscrutable character whose record had been one of unselfish devotion to the cause of animal life? Was he really an English schoolboy who had turned Indian and lived a life of masquerade? Or was he the half-breed son of an Apache Indian woman and an American frontiersman of Scotch descent? That was the mystery which puzzled the world following his death, and which provided headlines for the more sensational sections of the Press. The truth, so far as it has been revealed, is known only to the author of this book, his friend and confidant, Lovat Dickson. The story, which opens in an English seaside town on a night in June 1888, and ends on a winter's afternoon in Saskatchewan fifty years later, is primarily the narrative of a man's strange and adventurous life, but it is also the record of a striving after, and achievement of, a spiritual peace."--Book jacket. 

345 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.