New North : Being Some Account of a Woman's Journey through Canada to the A rctic

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CAMERON, Agnes Deans. The New North : Being Some Account of a Woman's Journey through Canada to the Arctic. With many illustrations from photographs by the author. NY: D. Appleton and Co., 1910. Pp. (i)-xix,[1],1-398,[2], frontis., + 1 map leaf. Numerous illustrations to text. 8vo, green ribbed cloth with map pictorial panel to front, gilt lettering to front and spine, t.e.g. Arctic Bibliography 2657. The author's account of her voyage into Canada's Arctic regions, primarily by way of Canada's inland waterways -- beginning in Manitoba, traversing the Prairies, before entering the Northwest Territories by way of Great Slave Lake, and journeying along the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean. Contents: 1. The Mendicants Reach Winnipeg, 2. Winnipeg to Athabasca Landing, 3. Athabasca Landing, 4. Down the Athabasca One Hundred and Sixty-Five Miles to Grand Rapids, 5. Ninety Miles of Rapids, 6. Fort Chipewyan Past and Present, 7. Lake Athabasca and Its Fond du Lac, 8. Fond du Lac to Fort Smith, 9. Slave River and Great Slave Lake, 10. Providence to Simpson, One Hundred and Fifty Miles Down the Mackenzie, 11. Fort Good Hope on the Arctic Circle, 12. Arctic Red River and Its Eskimo, 13. Fort MacPherson Folk, 14. Moralizing Under the Midnight Sun, 15, Mainly Concerning Food, 16. The Tale of a Whale, 17. South from the Arctic to Chipewyan, 18. To McMurray and Back to the Peace, 19. Up the Peace to Vermilion, 20. Vermilion-on-the-Peace, 21. Fort Vermilion to Lesser Slave, 22. Peace River Crossing to Lesser Slave Lake, 23. Lesser Slave Lake to Edmonton, 24. Home Among the Yellow Wheat. Outer hinges worn with light wear to edges, name to ffep, else vg. 225.00. N° de ref. del artículo 64605

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