HOOPER, W.H.

Ten Months among the Tents of the Tuski, with Incidents of an arctic Boat Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, as far as the Mackenzie River, and cape Bathurst. With a Map and Illustrations.

London, John Murray, 1853. Orig. full pictorial cloth, blindtooling on spine and covers. Gilt illustration on frontcover. Inner hinge weakening. Spine a bit slanting. Light wear along edges. Lithographed frontispiece in colour. XVI,417 pp., 3 lithographed colourplates, 2 plates in balck, 5 textillustrations and 1 folded lithographed map in colour. Internally clean and fine.

First edition. "He includes in his narrative, detailed descriptions of the life, customs, dwellings, clothing and beliefs of the Chukchis, and (in less detail) of the North Alaska Eskimos; notes on the Mackenzie Eskimos and Indians, and on the sea and river ice, hunting, trapping and character of the territory covered in his journeys." (Arctic Bibliography, 7395).

Lada-Mocarski 140.

Order-nr.: 54432