Schwatka, Frederick

A Summer in Alaska. A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaskan Exploring Expedition Along the Great Yukon River, from its Source to its Mouth, in the British North-West Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska

Philadelphia: John Y. Huber Co. 1891.

First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Very Good. 418 pp, with frontis portrait and 70 plates and illustrations from wood engravings. Re-backed, with original cloth laid down; new endpapers. An enlarged edition of Schwatka's Along Alaska's Great River (describing a 1300-mile journey along the Yukon River), with three new chapters on discovery and history, the people and their industries and geographical features. (Arctic Bibliography 15598; 15604). Rear board stained. Spine very mildly slanted, cloth worn at the edges and lightly rubbed.