Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
by Castner, Brian
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385541627
- ISBN 13
- 9780385541626
- Seller
-
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 2018. xii, 334 pages, colour illustrations, colour maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage that had eluded mariners for hundreds of years. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling journey -- and discovered the Passage he could not find." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The Northwest Company, 1788; Into the north, 2016; Scotland, 1774; New York, 1775; Montreal, 1778; Detroit, 1784; The Pays d'en Haut, 2016; Grand portage and the English River, 1785; Awgeenah and Matonabbee, 1786; Murder at the old establishment, 1787; To the Northwest Passage, 1788; All it takes is time, 2016; Embarkation, June 1789; The Rapids of the Slave, June 2016; Shoot the messenger, June 1789; Thunderstorms and raids, June 2016; Into the mountains, July 1789; Plagues of the Deh Cho, July 2016; The Dogrib, July 1789; Rapid without rapids, July 2016; You can starve on rabbits, July 1789; Fort Good Hope to Tsiigehtchic, July 2016; Satisfy the curiosity, tho' not the intent, July 1789; Into the earth sponge, July 2016; The highest part of the island, July 1789; A sea of ice, frozen no more, July 2016; Many returns.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 121529
- Title
- Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
- Author
- Castner, Brian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0385541627
- ISBN 13
- 9780385541626
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2018
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES;
Terms of Sale
LEFT COAST BOOKS
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
LEFT COAST BOOKS
Biblio member since 2016
Santa Barbara, California
About LEFT COAST BOOKS
Established in Santa Barbara, California, in 2004, Left Coast Books specializes in ART BOOKS, offering thousands of titles on painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, design, photography, film, video, and performance art. We also sell classics, literature, history, and a broad variety of useful academic books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...