Questo sito usa cookie di analytics per raccogliere dati in forma aggregata e cookie di terze parti per migliorare l'esperienza utente.
Leggi l'Informativa Cookie Policy completa.

Livres anciens et modernes

Tuttle, Charles R.

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

240,64 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

Demander plus d'informations

Mode de Paiement

Détails

Année
1885
Lieu d'édition
Toronto. C. Blackett Robinson
Auteur
Tuttle, Charles R.
Edition
First edition.
Thème
Travel - Polar
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

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.