On Snow-Shoes to the Barren Grounds: Twenty-Eight Hundred Miles after Musk-Oxen and Wood-Bison.

£375 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

A handsomely bound copy of this account of hunting around Hudson's Bay. Caspar Whitney (1864-1929), a journalist for Harper's, stopped at the Hudson's Bay Company's posts (Ft. McMurray, Ft. Chipewyan, Ft. Smith, and Ft. Resolution) and gives a distinct account of the local and indigenous peoples. First edition; 8vo (22.5 x 16 cm): 113 illustrations including frontispiece, 1 in-text map, bookplate to pastedown; contemporary half blue calf, marbled boards, gilt spine in six compartments with gilt red morocco lettering piece, all edges marbled, a fine copy; x, 324 pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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