Through The Gold-Fields Of Alaska To Bering Straits

HARRY DE WINDT

Publication: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1898, New York and London

First U. S. edition. 8 1/2" x 6" in gray cloth stamped in gilt, black and white. [xi], 314 pp., preface, contents, listing of illustrations, errata sheet still attached, folded map, 32 plates, appendices, index. Arctic Bibliography 3939 says, "Account of a journey from Juneau via Chilkoot Pass and Lake LeBarge, to the Klondike, thence down the Yukon River to St. Michael, also a two month sojourn among the Chukchis of Cape Chaplina." The large map shows the Yukon gold fields. The appendices include a list of equipment and supplies you need for a journey from Juneau to Dawson city, a glossary of Tchuktchi language, staking a claim, prices of furs, weather, distances, etc. Spine darkened else a very good tight, crisp, clean copy.