Explorations in the Far North; Being the Report of an Expedition Under the Auspices of the University of Iowa During the Years 1892, '93, and '94
by Russell, Frank
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About This Item
[Iowa]: State University of Iowa, 1898. Hardcover. pp. vii, 290. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Patterned endpapers. Portrait frontispiece, folding map, b&w plates. Spine sunned, edgewear, name stamp, minor separation between title page and frontispiece, a few pencil marks; very good. Peel 2167: "While most of the text describes the Mackenzie River valley, there is valuable information on the lower Saskatchewan Valley, and on southern Alberta." Includes travel narratives, chapters on musk-ox hunting, ethnological materials, myths, natural history.
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- BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB (CA)
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- Title
- Explorations in the Far North; Being the Report of an Expedition Under the Auspices of the University of Iowa During the Years 1892, '93, and '94
- Author
- Russell, Frank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- State University of Iowa
- Place of Publication
- [Iowa]
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- natural history; Inuit; North; Arctic; Canada; Canadian; Manitoba;
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- Polar;
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