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Across The Sub-Arctics of Canada. A Journey of 3,200 Miles by Canoe and Snowshoe through the Barren Lands. Including a List of Plants Collected on the Way, a Vocabulary of Eskimo Words, A Route Map and full classified index. With Illustrations from Photographs Taken on the Journey and from Drawings by Arthur Heming
by TYRRELL, James W. (Quoted)
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About This Item
Toronto, Montreal, Halifax. William Briggs & C.W. Coates & S.F. Huestis. 1897. 8vo, 22cm, The First Edition, vi,(7)-280p., with portrait frontis and 61 plates and illustrations, folding map, black coated endpapers, original grey blue pictorial decorated cloth, bookplate, gilt spine and cover titles and decorations, cloth is a bit soiled, a very good copy of the scarcer first edition.(ar). Arctic Biblio. 18138. A classic overland travel narrative of a Canadian Geological Survey in 1893 sent out to make a 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.
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- Bookseller
- Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42006
- Title
- Across The Sub-Arctics of Canada. A Journey of 3,200 Miles by Canoe and Snowshoe through the Barren Lands. Including a List of Plants Collected on the Way, a Vocabulary of Eskimo Words, A Route Map and full classified index. With Illustrations from Photographs Taken on the Journey and from Drawings by Arthur Heming
- Author
- TYRRELL, James W. (Quoted)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Toronto, Montreal, Halifax. William Briggs & C.W. Coates & S.F. Huestis. 1897
- Keywords
- canada canadiana arctic northern north polar david thompson journey travel narrative overland map mapping surveying
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Ottawa, Ontario
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