The Barren Ground of Northern Canada

Book Description

London: Macmillan Company, 1892 First edition. Pp. ix, [3], 300. Errata slip tipped in. 2 folding maps in color. Index. Original green cloth, gilt. A bit of light wear to spine ends and corners, spine slightly darkened. Light foxing to preliminary and end leaves. Text block slightly shaken. A near fine copy, collated complete. "To see the muskox and the Indians who hunt them, Pike made a hard journey to Great Slave Lake and Lake Vermillion, Calgary and Edmonton, and into the barren lands. Pike is told that the muskox 'understand every word of the Yellow Knife language.' He finds it 'strange that they do not make use of the information they receive to avoid danger.' He returns to the warp of civilization: 'the shiny black boots into which we squeeze our feet when we throw away the moccasin of freedom'." (Waterston). [Waterston, The Travellers - Canada to 1900: p.184]..

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