hunter fenley (6 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 8vo, xvii,211p., with 21 illustrations & 15 maps (including 3 double page & rear folding map), illustrated stiff wraps, trade paperback, new | ~ While the >literati' were drawn to Paris in the late 1920's, many adventures were drawn to Northern Canada, It was the last decade before air travel wrought irrevocable changes. Various rationales justified the adventures. Fenley Hunter's mission was to measure the huge cataract on the Nahanni River and name it after his daughter. McGahern Stewart Publishing continues its project to bring to the public interesting, well written but forgotten or hitherto unpublished northern stores.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine-. 211 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with some black and white illustrations throughout and a folding map at the back of the book. Some pages are creased on the corners. Bound in black and white card covers with white titles. Light wear around the edges. SCARCE. NF-. Book.

Zustand: very_good. Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.

Fenley Hunter. Frances Lake Yukon: Dawson 1887, Hunter 1923. Flushing, NY: Self-Published (printed by The Marion Press), 1924. Limited edition, No. 38 of 50 numbered copies. Inscribed by Fenley Hunter: "To "Bill" Bryan / with much affection / from / Fenley Hunter / 12 May 1925." Octavo. 103pp. Illustrated, with folding maps. Publisher's brown quarter leather over yellow cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt. . Boards lightly rubbed and thumbsoiled; bumped to corners, board edges, and spine head; minor toning. Very good.

Number 51x of 50 copies. Inscribed "To Robert W. Highbie/ from the printer/ Frank E. Hopkins/ 1924." Printed at the Marion Press. Illustrated with folding map, folding view, numerous photographic plates and inserted sketch maps. Pp. 103, [1, colophon]. 1 vols. 8vo. Streeter: Hunter's narration of his journey "to the Yukon in quest of Frances Lake" is taken from his diary. "Many things that I wrote in the field last summer read queerly today, but that may be accounted for by the fact that here on Long Island I am neither tired, hungry, nor wet. These three things strangely influence the amateur explorer." "A very interesting journal with sketch maps and drawings and photographs. Touches much country not before described and goats are discovered near Frances Lake ." - Phillips The author thanks Charles Sheldon of Washington, D.C., in the Apologia for giving him the idea to search for sheep at Frances Lake. Hunter retraced some of the 1887 explorations of George M. Dawson, published in The Yukon Territory (1898), which collected acounts by Dall, Dawson, and Ogilvie. Streeter 3627; Phillips, p. 190; Larremore, The Marion Press no. 183 & pp. 150 & 160; Not in Heller Original quarter brown morocco and linen sides Illustrated with folding map, folding view, numerous photographic plates and inserted sketch maps. Pp. 103, [1, colophon]. 1 vols. 8vo Number 51x of 50 copies. Inscribed "To Robert W. Highbie/ from the printer/ Frank E. Hopkins/ 1924." Printed at the Marion Press. Signed.

Copy #X of 50 copies. Printed at the Marion Press. Inscribed on the colophon page to Thomas A. Larremore April 2/26 from the printer Frank E. Hopkins. Larremore was the bibliographer of the Marion Press. Illustrated with folding map, folding view, numerous photographic plates and inserted sketch maps. Pp. 103, [1, colophon]. 1 vols. 8vo. "A very interesting journal with sketch maps and drawings and photographs. Touches much country not before described and goats are discovered near Frances Lake ." - Phillips Streeter: Hunter's narration of his journey "to the Yukon in quest of Frances Lake" is taken from his diary. "Many things that I wrote in the field last summer read queerly today, but that may be accounted for by the fact that here on Long Island I am neither tired, hungry, nor wet. These three things strangely influence the amateur explorer." The author thanks Charles Sheldon of Washington, D.C., in the Apologia for giving him the idea to search for sheep at Frances Lake. Hunter retraced some of the 1887 explorations of George M.Dawson, published in The Yukon Territory (1898), which collected acounts by Dall, Dawson, and Ogilvie. Streeter 3627; Phillips, p. 190. Larremore, The Marion Press no. 183 & pp. 150 & 160; Not in Heller Original quarter brown morocco and cloth, titled in gilt. Stamp of Robert Pierce on the front pastedown Illustrated with folding map, folding view, numerous photographic plates and inserted sketch maps. Pp. 103, [1, colophon]. 1 vols. 8vo Copy #X of 50 copies. Printed at the Marion Press. Inscribed on the colophon page to Thomas A. Larremore April 2/26 from the printer Frank E. Hopkins. Larremore was the bibliographer of the Marion Press. Signed.