Our North Land: Being a Full Account of the Canadian North-West and Hudson's Bay Route, together with a Narrative of the Experiences of the Hudson's Bay Expedition of 1884, including a Description of the Climate, Resources, Native Inhabitants

1885

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Year of publication

1885

Place of printing

Toronto. C. Blackett Robinson

Author

Tuttle, Charles R.

Edition

First edition.

Keyword

Travel - Polar

Languages

English

First edition

Yes

Description

8vo [24 x 16 cm]; xvi, [17]-589 pp, 2 folding colored maps, including frontis, numerous plates and other illus, with the half title, tables. orig pictorial cloth rebacked preserving orig covers & pictorial spine, gilt title lettering, marbled edges, new endpapers, lightly rubbed, slightly toning in some outer margins, signature, but near fine interior, clean, in very good+ cover, sound, solid. Peel 1302. Arctic Bibliography 18107: 'Based on the author's observations during the expedition of 1884, and on reports of other Canadian explorers and surveyors, a narrative of the expedition with notes on white, native and halfbreed peoples, the villages, missionaries and economic life observed along Labrador, the posts of Ungava Peninsula, Churchill, York Factory and the islands of the Bay, accounts of fighting field ice, bear hunting, and the work of Hudson's Bay Co.' Nicely illustrated.