Description: Description The Inside Passage to Alaska 1792-1920 with an Account of the North Pacific Coast from Cape Mendocino to Cook Inlet. Two volumes. Vol 1 342pp. with frontis plus six plates; Vol 2 318pp. with map and ten plates. (8vo) original green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, deckled fore-edge (some pages still uncut). First Edition. Edited from Woollen's original manuscript by Paul L. Hawarth. Condition Volume 1 342pp. fine; volume 2 318pp., has stamped on the front free endpaper the word "Polaris." Overall both volumes are near fine. About this book William Woollen was an Indiana lawyer, outdoorsman, and birder; this work chronicles Vancouver’s voyages as well as his own travels on the North Pacific coast. Arctic Bib. 19679; Tourville 4960; Wickersham 2265. A chronicle, including the explorations of Captain Vancouver, with much on the natural history, based on the author's five trips through the area. 1000 copies printed but reportedly the author's family had 500 destroyed. Quite scarce.
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Year Printed: 1924
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Alaska
Binding: Cloth
Author: William Watson Woollen
Subject: Exploration & Travel
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Publisher: The Arthur H Clarke Company
Place of Publication: Cleveland
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
