Overland to Starvation Cove: With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880. Translated by William Barr by Klutschak, Heinrich - 1987

University of Toronto Press, 1987. Reprint. Hardcover. FINE/VERY GOOD. 8vo. Dust jacket has a small crease along back edge. Dust jacket is protected in new archival mylar. 261 pages. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 0802057624 . A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. B&W illustrations; 6.5 X 1 X 9.5 inches; 261 pages; "In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years later, Heinrich Klutschak of Prague, artist and surveyor on a small expedition led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, stumbled upon the grisly remains at Starvation Cove of the last survivors among Franklin's men. 'Overland to Starvation Cove' is the first English translation of Klutschak's account. A significant contribution to Canadian exploration history, it is also an important anthropological document, providing some of the earliest reliable descriptions of the Aivilingmiut, the Utkuhikhalingmiut, and the Netsilingmiut. But above all,… Read More

Univ of Toronto Pr, 1987 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Minor shelf wear to book and dust jacket. Otherwise a tight, unmarked book. Index. xxxiv, 261 pp..

Toronto: Univ of Toronto Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. xxxi 5 261, b/w illustrations, and maps, ""In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years later, Heinrich Klutschak of Prague, artist and surveyor on a small expedition led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment,…

Toronto Buffalo London: University of Toronto Press, 1987. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing by this Publisher. Nice clean copy, close to new. Former owner name and date on front endpaper otherwise unmarked, dust jacket in a new protective mylar sleeve.