Sheila Burnford
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Sheila Philip Cochrane Burnford, née Every, (11 May 1918 – 20 April 1984) was a Canadian novelist. Born in Scotland, she emigrated to Canada in 1951.
Burnford is best remembered for The Incredible Journey (1961), the first of a number of books she wrote for children.
She also wrote One Woman's Arctic (1973) about her two summers in Pond Inlet, Nunavut on Baffin Island. She travelled by komatik with dogs, assisted in archeological excavation, having to thaw the land inch by inch, ate everything offered to her, and saw the migration of the narwhals. This is a world that has experienced unlimited change, but Burnford saw the best and worst of Pond Inlet at a time gone forever.
[edit] Selected Bibliography
- The Incredible Journey - 1961
- The Fields of Noon - 1964
- Without Reserve - 1969
- One Woman's Arctic - 1973
- Mr. Noah and the Second Flood - 1973
- Bel Ria - 1977
