The wilderness of the North Pacific Coast Islands: a hunter’s experiences while searching for Wapiti, bears, and Caribou on the larger Coast Islands of British Columbia and Alaska
by [BIG GAME HUNTING -- ALASKA & BRITISH COLUMBIA]. SHELDON, Charles
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- Hardcover
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Vancouver, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Toronto: The Copp, Clark Co., Ltd., 1912. 8vo. xvi, 246 pp. Photogravure frontisp. by Carl Rungius, 3 photogravure plates by Rungius, numerous photo plates, 5 maps (1 folding). Publisher’s blue-green cloth, gilt illust. of Grizzly Bear & lettering front cover, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g. (minor shelfwear, slight rubbing, occasional light spotting), still VG bright copy. First Canadian edition of this well-illustrated and documented account of hunting and observing on Vancouver Island, Montague Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, and includes a chapter of his wife Louisa Walker Gulliver Sheldon’s (b. 1880) experiences bear hunting on Admiralty Island. Sheldon (1867-1928) trekked by steamboat, canoe, pack horse, and on foot, with other explorers and hunters such as Frederick Selous, William H. Osgood, and Carl Rungius, hunting caribou, grizzly bears, moose, and other big game as well.
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- Zephyr Used & Rare Books
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- 60617
- Title
- The wilderness of the North Pacific Coast Islands: a hunter’s experiences while searching for Wapiti, bears, and Caribou on the larger Coast Islands of British Columbia and Alaska
- Author
- [BIG GAME HUNTING -- ALASKA & BRITISH COLUMBIA]. SHELDON, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Copp, Clark Co., Ltd.,
- Place of Publication
- Toronto:
- Date Published
- 1912.
- Keywords
- Alaska, Yukon, Big Game Hunting, Hunting, Alaska, British Columbia, Queen Charlotte Islands, Grizzly Bears, Women, Louise Walker Gulliver Sheldon, Big Horn Sheep, Sheep, Grizzly Bears, Caribou, Moose, Frederick Selous, William H. Osgood, Carl Rungius, Can
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