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Condition: clean copy. Content: This book reveals the international impact of Sir Alexander Mackenzie's 1789 and 1793 to the Artic Ocean and the Pacific expeditions respectively and places him among the elite of New World explorers, illuminating his vital role in the history of the fur trade and the American West. 232 pages, sources, index.

Condition: clean copy, with previous owner's plate on title page. Content: The 1991 facsimile edition of the 1802 narrative of Malaspina's exploration of the Straight of Jan de Fuca in 1792 . 166 pages plus gazette of fold out charts and illustrations.

Condition: clean copy, spine sun faded. Content: catalogue to the exhibition dealing with Malaspina's two year exploration of the Northwest coast. Fold out of the content of the corvettes 'Descubierta' and 'Atrevida'

Condition: clean copy. Content: In 70 watercolors, E. J. Revell captured the beauty of plants found by early travelers in North America. Accompanying each painting are quotations from a variety of explorers and settlers, describing the plants and reflecting the practical, aesthetic, and botanic interests of newcomers in different parts of the country. 164 pages, bibliography.

Condition: clean copy. Content: The author has chosen four regions that are rich in nomadic culture: the Arabian peninsula with the Bedouin, the Sahara with the Moors, and Tuareg, the mountain ranges of southerner Iran with their migratory pastoral tribes, and the steppes of Central Asia with the Mongol horsemen and Tartar decedents. He has travelled with all of them and… Read more

Condition: clean copy. Content: Samuel Prescott Fay and his party set out from Jasper on June 26, 1914 with five saddle horses and 16 pack horses and reached their destination on October 15,1914, with the outsift completely in tact.Fay kept a detailed journal [held at the Smithsonian Institution] which he provided to what is now the US Fish and Wildlife Service… Read more

Condition: clean copy. Content: reprint of the 1891 Emin Pasha Expedition, its journeyings and adventures among the native tribes of eastern equatorial Africa, the Gallas, Massais, Wasukuma, etc., etc., on the Lake Baringo and the Victoria Nyanza. pages.

Condition: clean copy. Content: The author explores the adventures and mishaps of successive voyages to find the northwest passage. omc;idomg pme expedition that disappeared entirely in the Artic ice. 468 pages, sources, index.

Condition: clean copy. Content Facsimile of the 1865 account of the 1862 expedition by William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam Viscount Milton crossing the northwest of North America by land. Accompanied by his physician, Walter Butler Cheadle, he began 13 months of frustration, danger, death and near starvation. 400 pages.

Condition: clean copy. Content: Pierre de La Verendrye was an adventurous French Canadian trader who in 1731 set out to discover the Western Sea. At that time it was believed that a large gulf of water extended into the North American continent from the Pacific Ocean and that when this was found it would be a simple matter to travel and… Read more

Condition: clean copy, original owner's name on first page upper right corner. Content: The author's journal of the exploration through the Canadian Rockies with William Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton over the uncharted Yellowhead route in 1862-63. 312 pages, with attached map. Introduction and notes by A. G. Doughty and Gustave Lanctot, with a new introduction by Lewis H Thomas.

Condition: clean copy, dust jacket in excellent condition, protected by plastic cover. Content:This is the story of how John Palliser, Irish nobleman, conceived the idea of exploring the unknown country north of the Us/Canadian boundary, and of the far-reaching journeys undertaken by members of the expedition. Hard and dangerous, these journeys were made exciting by buffalo-running and hunting for grizzly bears,… Read more

Condition: clean copy. Content: Twenty scholarly articles examining various aspect of the Malaspina Expedition. 198 pages, maps and illustrations.

Condition: clean copy. Content: The author has taken the personal accounts and records of the traders and explorers - Alexander Mackenzie, David Thompson, Peter Pond, Simon McTavish, and George Simpson, among others - and produced an exciting and comprehensive story of adventure, rivalry, exploitation and development. The major role played by the Hudson's Bay Company is explored, and the book… Read more

Condition:clean copy. Condition: 24 pages, annual lecture, 1999.

Condition: clean copy, inscription by author on title page. Content: The author describes the Finlay River from its source high in the Stikine Mountains of northern British Columbia and tells the history of the Indians and white men of the area from the earliest times. 316 pages, bibliography.

Sound clean copy in DJ. Illustrated endpapers and throughout. Heavy may require extra postage

Sound hc in DJ. Prev owner bookplate otherwise clean copy.