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She is best known for her novel The Incredible Journey about two dogs and a cat traveling through the Canadian wilderness. Burnford was born in Edinburgh , Scotland and lived in Ayrshire during her teenage years. In she married Dr. David Burnford , with whom she had three children.

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During World War II , she worked as a volunteer ambulance driver. The story of three animal pets traveling in the wilderness won the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award in and the ALA Aurianne Award in as the best book on animal life written for children ages 8— It is marketed for children but Burnford has stated that it was not intended as a children's book.

It was a modest success commercially and became a bestseller after release of the Disney film, The Incredible Journey which was remade in as Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. Another book, Bel Ria , about a dog's survival in wartime, was based on her own experiences as an ambulance driver. She traveled by komatik, a traditional Inuit dog sled , assisted in archaeological excavation, having to thaw the land inch by inch, ate everything offered to her, and saw the migration of the narwhals.

She died of cancer in the village of Bucklers Hard in Hampshire at the age of