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Thierry Mallet
1884–1969
Drawn from years spent traveling through northern Canada, these stories and sketches bring the Arctic frontier to life with a mix of adventure, observation, and lived experience.
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Plain Tales of the North
by Thierry Mallet
About the author
A French writer and fur-trade executive, Thierry Mallet is best known for books inspired by his long experience in northern Canada. Contemporary editions of Plain Tales of the North present him as "Captain Thierry Mallet" and describe him as a traveler who spent many years visiting remote trading posts.
His best-known works include Plain Tales of the North (1925) and Glimpses of the Barren Lands (1930). A later French edition of Kakoot: récits du pays des caribous also frames his writing around the strong pull the Far North had on him and his years of work for Revillon Frères, the French fur company active in Canada.
Published sources located for this entry confirm the life dates 1884–1969, but I did not find a reliable page with a clearly usable portrait image embedded for him, so no profile image is included.