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Book Condition: Used
Seller: William Reese Company

United States
About Item: London, 1801.. [4],viii,cxxxii,412,[2]pp. plus three folding maps. Portrait frontispiece. Half title. Quarto. Late 19th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Minor wear to boards, corners repaired. Contemporary bookplate and later ownership inscription on front pastedown. Scattered foxing and toning. Very good. This classic of North American exploration describes the extraordinary travels of the author in northwest America in 1789, when he discovered the Mackenzie River, and in 1793, when he crossed the continent to the Pacific. Mackenzie also provides an excellent history of the fur trade in Canada as well as vocabularies of several Indian languages. The "Map of Mackenzie's track from Ft. Chipewyan to the Pacific Ocean in 1793" was a milestone and "at once questions began to be raised about the now patent inadequacies of all prior maps of the American Far West" (Wheat). A cornerstone in any collection of North American travel and exploration. HOWES M133. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 251. GRAFF… Read More
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