Laurence Evelyn Hyde
Born June 6, 1914 in the United Kingdom but immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1926. Hyde was a Canadian film maker, painter, and graphic artist, known for his work with the National Film Board of Canada, stamp designs for the Canadian Postal Service.
In 1934 Hyde worked on a series of engravings tentatively titled Discovery. They were intended to tell the story of the Viking discovery of America. These were never printed as a book.
Hyde’s only wordless novel is Southern Cross 1951.
- Title: Southern Cross: A Novel of the South Seas
- Author and Illustrator: Laurence Hyde
- Introduction: Rockwell Kent
- Date: November, 1951
- ISBN: not applicable
- Publisher: The Ward Ritchie Press
- Place of publication: Los Angles, CA
- Printer: The Ward Ritchie Press
- Copyright: Laurence Hyde
- Size:
- Dust jacket: No? – may have been issued with a clear DJ
- slipcase: No?
- Binding: hard cover
- Cover: cloth
- Language: English titles, etc
- Paginated: unpaginated
- Printed: images recto
- Edition: Trade only, not limited??
- Printed from the original matrix: yes printed from the original woodblocks
- References:
- Description: The book consists of 118 wood engravings. The story recounts the testing of atomic bombs in the South Pacific following the end of the World War Two; the evacuation by American sailors of indigenous peoples living on a Polynesian island in the region, and the consequent destruction of their way of life.
Soft cover – same date
