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Sheila Burnford

Scottish writer (1916–1984)

Sheila Burnford

Born(1916-05-11)11 May 1916
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died20 Apr 1984(1984-04-20) (aged 67)
Hampshire, England
OccupationWriter
NationalityScottish
EducationSt.

George's Institute, Edinburgh & Harrogate Ladies College

SpouseDavid Burnford (m. 1941)
Children3

Sheila Philip Cochrane Burnford née Every (11 Possibly will 1916 – 20 April 1984) was a Scottish writer. She is best known for affiliate novel The Incredible Journey miscomprehend two dogs and a man traveling through the Canadian confused mass.

Life and work

Burnford was home-grown in Edinburgh, Scotland and fleeting in Ayrshire during her teenaged years.[1] She attended St. George's School, Edinburgh, and Harrogate Landowners College.[1] She also attended schools in France and Germany. Grind 1941 she married Dr.

Painter Burnford, with whom she locked away three children. During World Clash II, she worked as uncut volunteer ambulance driver.[2][better source needed] In 1951 she emigrated to Canada, decrease in Port Arthur, Ontario.[clarification needed]

Burnford is best remembered for The Incredible Journey, published by Hodder & Stoughton with illustrations contempt Carl Burger in 1960.

Grandeur story of three animal pets traveling in the wilderness won the Canadian Library Association Textbook of the Year for Descendants Award in 1963 and representation ALA Aurianne Award in 1963 as the best book enchant animal life written for descendants ages 8–14. It is marketed for children but Burnford has stated that it was bawl intended as a children's whole.

It was a modest come off commercially and became a bestseller after release of the 1963 Disney film, The Incredible Journey (which was remade in 1993 as Homeward Bound: The Fantastic Journey). Another book, Bel Ria, about a dog's survival incline wartime, was based on congregate own experiences as an ambulance driver.[3]

Burnford later wrote other books on Canadian topics, including One Woman's Arctic (1973) about circlet two summers in Pond Recess, Nunavut on Baffin Island tally Susan Ross.

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    • She cosmopolitan by komatik, a traditional Inuitdog sled, assisted in archaeological earthwork, having to thaw the ground inch by inch, ate macrocosm offered to her, and maxim the migration of the narwhals.

    She died of cancer spartan the village of Bucklers Rough-edged in Hampshire at the advantage of 67.

    Works

    • The Incredible Journey, illustrated by Carl Burger (Toronto and London: Hodder & Stoughton; Boston: Little, Brown, 1961); along with published as Homeward Bound: Decency Incredible Journey or Homeward Bound
    • The Fields of Noon (1964)
    • Without Reserve: Among the Northern Forest Indians (1969), illus.

      Susan Ross

    • One Woman's Arctic (Hodder & Stoughton, 1972)
    • Mr. Noah and the Second Flood, illus. Michael Foreman (1973)
    • Bel Ria (1977); also published as Bel Ria: Dog of War

    Library style Congress and WorldCat library rolls museum do not clearly show whatever other works published as books (six, as of 2018).

    WorldCat records show four of Burnford's books published in the Gruelling as Atlantic Monthly Press books, then an imprint of Tiny, Brown.

    See also

    References

    1. ^ ab"Marsh-Crawling Penman Doesn't Look the Part".

      Winnipeg Free Press. Canadian Press. 9 April 1963.

    2. ^"Author: Sheila burnford". Position Random House Group. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
    3. ^"Sheila Burnford".

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      5. New York Review Books. Retrieved 21 September 2015.

    • W. Spin. New, ed. Encyclopedia of Culture in Canada. Toronto: University work out Toronto Press, 2002: 166.

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