THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE BY LAND. BEING THE NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC, UNDERTAKEN WITH THE VIEW OF EXPLORING A ROUTE ACROSS THE CONTINENT TO BRITISH COLUMBIA THROUGH BRITISH TERRITORY, BY ONE OF THE NORTHERN PASSES IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN

London, 1865. xxiv,400pp. plus twenty-two plates and two folding maps. Half title. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Small repair to first leaf of Contents, light scattered foxing, first folding map archivally mounted. Very good. Third edition, probably printed in the same year as the first, of this frightful journey across the North American continent. "Wagner once commented that the JOURNAL is filled with the most interesting information about the travels of the pair and their continual quarreling, and he noted that Cheadle's description of the Cariboo mines is one of the best in existence" - Wagner-Camp. "Despite the two names on the title page, a comparison with Cheadle's JOURNAL makes it fairly evident that this work was written by Walter Butler Cheadle. Milton and Cheadle arrived in Quebec in the spring of 1862. They made their way to Edmonton where they formed a party to cross the Rockies via Yellow Head Pass. After weeks of hardships and privations in the mountains they finally reached Kamloops. From Kamloops they journeyed to Westminster and Victoria, but they returned to the mainland to visit the Cariboo gold diggings before sailing for England via the Isthmus of Panama" - Lowther. LOWTHER 257. WAGNER-CAMP 420:4. FIELD 1067 (1st ed). TPL 4340 (4th ed).