The Lure of the Labrador Wild: The Story of the Exploring Expedition Conducted by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.

Dillon Wallace

Published by Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, 1905

About this Item

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, [c. 1905 but ca. 1913]. Presumed Eleventh Edition. Octavo; contemporary full crushed teal morocco double-ruled in gilt, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges gilt, housed in custom cloth slipcase; [2],339pp.; photographic frontispiece, fifteen (15) leaves of plates, folding map bound in rear. Spine leather toned to tan, small gilt-tooled ex libris to front pastedown, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good or better copy in deluxe bespoke binding. Edition statement and date of publication based on updated Preface. Oft-reprinted account of American adventurer Leonidas Hubbard's doomed canoe expedition up the Naskaupi River in Labrador. Three months after setting off Hubbard died of exhaustion while both his companions survived, albeit one with gangrene in his foot.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lure of the Labrador Wild: The Story of the Exploring Expedition Conducted by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1905
• Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • 20th Century
  • Travel / Exploration
  • 19th Century
  • Bindings
  • Biography / Memoir