The Lure of the Labrador Wild. The Story of the Exploring Expedition Conducted by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.
New York, Chicago, Toronto... Fleming H. Revell Company. [1905]. 8vo, 21cm. 6TH edition, 339p., frontis & 16 illustrations, 3 maps on 2 leaves (one folding), in the original dark green cloth, gilt block spine and cover titles, with blind decorated illustrations stamped on the spine and upper cover, a fine copy. (ar). Item #42670
A.B. 19091. Account for general readers of a trip projected by Hubbard, a journalist, to explore from Lake Melville by river (thought to be Northwest River) to Lake Michikamau, thence across country to the George River, and downstream to Ungava Bay. Describes the travels of the party (Hubbard, the author and George Olsen, a half breed Cree) north and west of Grand Lake during July-Oct., 1903, the ascent of Susan River, hardship, efforts to return, death of Hubbard. Hubbard's predicted trip was subsequently carried out by his widow who published A Woman's Way through unknown Labrador, 1908.
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