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When Christmas Crossed "the Peace" more books like this

by McClung, Nellie L. other copies of this book

Description: Very good. 1st Edition. 2p.l., 149, [1]pp. 16 mo in original stiff card covers. Coloured dust jacket is pasted onto covers as was released. Dust jacket is worn and chipped at edges. There is some light soiling to the back of the jacket. Clean text block with some light pencil markings on front free endpaper. Scarce. A lovely copy. very good The fifth work of published fiction by the famous Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. Read More

The Canadian Rockies. New & Old Trails more books like this

by Coleman, A. P. other copies of this book

Description: As new. 1st thus. [62], 383pp. Octavo with 3 folding maps and illustrations from photos + folding coloured reproduction of the separately issued Canadian Pacific Map of Canada. Bound in gilt lettered blue buckram with colour illustration on front cover. In as new condition. The first Canadian Rockies book written by a Canadian, as well as one of the most readable. A reproduction of the 1911 edition with a new introduction and illustrations, including a new portrait of the author. Read More

Among the Selkirk Glaciers Being the Account of a Rough Survey in the Rocky Mountain Regions of British Columbia more books like this

by Green, William Spotswood other copies of this book

Description: As new. 1st thus. [26], xv, 251pp. Small Octavo with 8 plates, and 1 Illustration in text plus folding map. Fine exact facsimile of the original edition in red cloth with a new introduction and portrait of the author. as new First book on the mountains in Canada. Green's explorations lead to the discovery of Lake Louise and the building of the Chateau Lake Louise being built on its current location. Read More

The Expeditions of the First International Polar Year, 1882-83 more books like this

by Barr, William other copies of this book

Description: Fine. 1st. vii, 222pp. Octavo in original stiff teal card covers with Illustrations from photos and drawings. Signed by the author. fine Includes the American expeditions to Lady Franklin Bay and Point Barrow plus expeditions from Austria, Sweden, Russia, etc. Read More

Archaeological Ethnography Among Mackenzie Basin Dene, Canada more books like this

by Janes, Robert R. other copies of this book

Description: Fine. 1st Edition. ix, 124p. pp. Octavo with illustrations from photos and drawings. fine Based on two archaeological surveys of the MacKenzie Basin, Northwest Territories, in the early 1970's, undertaken in anticipation of the proposed MacKenzie Valley pipeline. The studies involved locating prehistoric and historic archaelogical sites along the MacKenzie River and the interior regions east and west of the river. Read More

Climbs & Explorations in the Canadian Rockies more books like this

by Stutfield, Hugh E. M. other copies of this book

Description: As new. Facsimile Reprint. xii, 343pp. Octavo with plates from photos and fold map. Bound in gilt lettered grey cloth to match original book. as new With John Norman Collie and Hermann Wooley, Stutfield discovered the Columbia Icefields and made the first ascent of Mt Athabasca. Read More

The Canadian Mountaineering Anthology more books like this

by Fairley, Bruce other copies of this book

Description: As new. 1st edition limited to 250 numbered and signed copies. xii, 403pp. Octavo with illustrations from photos. Signed by Bruce Fairley. as new Anthology of mountaineering articles that originally appeared elsewhere, including the Canadian Alpine Journal. Read More

The Life of Sir John Franklin, R. N. With Maps, Portraits, and Facsimiles more books like this

by Traill, Henry Duff other copies of this book

Description: Very good. 1st edition. 10, [2], 445pp. + [2]pp. (publisher's ads)pp. Octavo in original brown cloth and patterned grey endpapers, uncut with two photogravure portraits (including frontispiece), two facsimiles and two coloured maps (one folding). Name on half title with scattered light foxing, primarily to edges and preliminaries. very good AB 17923. Read More

Snowland Folk. the Eskimos, the Bears, the Dogs, the Musk Oxen, and Other Dwellers in the Frozen North more books like this

by Peary, Robert E. other copies of this book

Description: Fine. 1st UK Edition. 97pp. Quarto. Frontispiece and illustrations from photos. Fine in original pictorial cloth. fine Not in AB. Read More