ISBN: 9780803263239 - New North: Account of a Woman's 1908 Journey Through Canada to the Arctic (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardback. Condition: Fine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Later Edition. ISBN 0-8032-6323-6. Trade Paperback. Very Good condition, with slight browning to edges of interior pages. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. Reprint edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Thus. SUBTITLED : An Account of a Woman's 1908 Journey through Canada to the Arctic '. In 1908 the author, aged 45, walked into a travel agency in Chicago and asked for information on a return trip to the Arctic Ocean. (She and her niece Miss Brown, ended up making the journey.) That `certain cheekiness' comes through in many places in her trip log - e.g. where she describes eager young RNWMP officers near Edmonton. Section of very dramatic b/w photos at center. One map ahead of chapter one. LEARN about : tetes-des-femmes, moose-nose, storm-spirit, wetigo, sow-belly, lobsticks and artikki. Cond : Paper wrapper is scarlet red with white lettering. Cameo photo of Cameron appears on front cover. Pages slightly yellowed but volume (including spine) is tight, bright, clean and giftable - in all ASPECTS. Quote (p. 169) : " ._._. people of the Nunatalmutes ? The fact that the women prefer a vulgar-fraction of a man, an Eskimo equity in connubial bliss, to spearing walrus on their own account is a significant factor in the problem. And before we piously condemn either ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. B/W Photographs (illustrator).…

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