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LANDS FORLORN. A STORY OF AN EXPEDITION TO HEARNE'S COPPERMINE RIVER
by Douglas, George Mellis
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- Hardcover
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York & London, 1914.. xvi,285pp. plus illustrated frontispiece portrait and two folding maps. Includes 180 photographs in the text, all by the author. Original blue publisher's cloth stamped in gilt and black. Light wear to edges of jacket, with small chips at head of spine and short separation at foot of front hinge fold. 20th-century bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing to titlepage, otherwise internally clean. A near fine copy. In the original printed dust jacket, in very good condition. A rare narrative of an expedition undertaken by August Sandberg, L.D. Douglas, and the author in 1911-12, down the Athabasca and Mackenzie rivers, to Great Bear Lake, Dease River, Dismal Lakes, and the Kendall River to Coppermine River. Includes "an account of the wintering at Great Bear Lake, and a second journey down the Coppermine to its mouth; descriptions of the routes (with map), natural history, Indians and Eskimos; the hunting and geological observations and prospecting especially in the Copper Mountains" - ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY. With useful appendices containing valuable geological and topographical information. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 4074.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCAM50600
- Title
- LANDS FORLORN. A STORY OF AN EXPEDITION TO HEARNE'S COPPERMINE RIVER
- Author
- Douglas, George Mellis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York & London
- Date Published
- 1914.
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William Reese Company
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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