Across the Sub-Arctics of Canada. A Journey of 3,200 Miles by Canoe and Snowshoe Through the Hudson Bay Region. Including a List of Plants Collected on the Way, a Vocabulary of Eskimo Words, and a Map Showing the Route of the Expedition

Tyrrell, James W

Verlag: Toronto William Briggs 1908, 1908

Beschreibung

viii,9-280 pp. Octavo. Original pictorial green cloth. Plates (including frontispiece portrait) from photos taken on the journey and illustrations from drawings by Arthur Heming. Folding map of route. A clean very bright copy. AB 18137. A classic overland travel narrative of a Canadian Geological Survey in 1893 sent out to make an exploratory survey of the interior of the Keewatin District. Joseph Burr and brother James William set out from Edmonton travelling via the Athabasca River and Lake Athabasca to Black Lake, travelling north by canoe, they followed the Chipman River to Selwyn and Wholdaia Lakes, then continued down the Dubawnt River to Dubawnt Lake discovering Barlow, Carey and Markham Lakes in the process. They explored the area for a week searching for the outlet of the Dubawnt River, before continuing on through Baker Inlet to Chesterfield Inlet discovering Grant Lake, the mouth of Chamberlain River, Wharton Lake, Aberdeen Lake, and Schultz Lake on the way. On September 13, they left Chesterfield Inlet for home travelling down the west coast of Hudson Bay to Churchill, and from there overland by snowshoe to Winnipeg arriving on January 2, 1894. Interestingly, there doesn't appear to have been a second edition after the first of 1897. Inscribed to McNeill? by the author and date 1913 on the front endpaper. Modern bookplate on pastedown. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 144580

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Across the Sub-Arctics of Canada. A Journey ...

Verlag: Toronto William Briggs 1908

Erscheinungsdatum: 1908

Einband: Hardcover