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Thierry Mallet

1884–1969

Drawn from years of travel through northern Canada, these tales bring the Far North to life with the eye of a trader and the instincts of a storyteller. The result is vivid, direct writing shaped by remote posts, long journeys, and the people he met along the way.

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Plain Tales of the North

Plain Tales of the North

by Thierry Mallet

About the author

Born in 1884 and dying in 1969, Thierry Mallet is known as Captain Thierry Mallet, the author of Plain Tales of the North and Glimpses of the Barren Lands.

The surviving book records tied to his work describe him as a Revillon Frères executive in New York, and Plain Tales of the North presents him as someone who spent many years visiting the company’s remote trading posts. That background helps explain the tone of his writing: practical, observant, and full of lived detail from northern Canada rather than polished literary pose.

His books gather stories of travel, fur-country life, and encounters in the Arctic and sub-Arctic world. They remain interesting not just as adventure writing, but as glimpses of a trading network and a northern frontier seen by a man who moved through them firsthand.