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A Summer in Alaska. A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition Along the Great Yukon River, from Its Source to Its Mouth, in the British North-West [Northwest] Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska. [Along Alaska's Great River]
A Summer in Alaska. A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition Along the Great Yukon River, from Its Source to Its Mouth, in the British North-West [Northwest] Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska. [Along Alaska's Great River]
A Summer in Alaska. A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition Along the Great Yukon River, from Its Source to Its Mouth, in the British North-West [Northwest] Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska. [Along Alaska's Great River]
A Summer in Alaska. A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition Along the Great Yukon River, from Its Source to Its Mouth, in the British North-West [Northwest] Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska. [Along Alaska's Great River]
A Summer in Alaska. A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition Along the Great Yukon River, from Its Source to Its Mouth, in the British North-West [Northwest] Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska. [Along Alaska's Great River]

A Summer in Alaska. A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition Along the Great Yukon River, from Its Source to Its Mouth, in the British North-West [Northwest] Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska. [Along Alaska's Great River]

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418 pp. Original navy blue cloth, gilt titles, decorated endpapers. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs and sketches. Arctic Bibliography 15604: "Enlarged edition of Along Alaska's Great River, q.v., with the addition of the people and their industries, and geographical features; a new frontispiece (representing the author, instead of Crater Lake in 1885 edition); and the omission of two fold. maps." A detailed narrative for general readers of the Alaska Military Reconnaissance 1883: the travels of the author's seven-man party by the insland passage, Lynn Canal, into the Chilkat country, over the Coast Mountains; the journey by raft from the headwaters of the Yukon for 1300 miles, thence by schooner to its mouth; with running comment on the country traversed, on the Indians, Eskimos, and their customs." About the author: "Frederick Schwatka (29 September 1849 - 2 November 1892) was a United States Army lieutenant with degrees in medicine and law and a noted explorer of northern Canada and Alaska."