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Camping in the Canadian Rockies. An Account of Camp Life in the Wilder Parts of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Together with a Description of the Region About Banff, Lake Louise, and Glacier, and a Sketch of the Early Explorations
by Wilcox, Walter Dwight
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- Hardcover
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
New York: G.P. Putnam's Son, 1897 Second and best edition with map. xiii,283 pp. Tall octavo. Original gilt and multi colour stamped pictorial blue cloth. Gilt top edge others uncut. 25 photogravure plates with titled tissue guards (including frontispiece). 18 illustrations in text. Complete with the often missing folding map (at end) which was only tipped onto the rear pastedown. A very attractive clean copy. Neate W73. Wilcox (1869-1949) was an original member of the American Alpine Club who explored the Canadian Rockies in the 1890's from north of the Kicking Horse Pass south to Mt. Assiniboine. The folding map is the first detailed map of the Lake Louise area. The publisher or author must have forgotten to include the map in the first edition or the maps was just not ready at the time. 1897
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144557
- Title
- Camping in the Canadian Rockies. An Account of Camp Life in the Wilder Parts of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Together with a Description of the Region About Banff, Lake Louise, and Glacier, and a Sketch of the Early Explorations
- Author
- Wilcox, Walter Dwight
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Son
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1897 Second and best edition wit
- Keywords
- lake louise
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mountaineering;
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- G
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- Gilt
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