Two Dianas in Alaska
London and New York: John Lane, 1909.
First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xii, 316 pp + ads, with 29 illustrations from photographs. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Corners lightly rubbed, a few pale water droplet stains on upper board; all else clean and sound. Herbert and her cousin Cicely opted to defy convention and mount their own big-game hunting expeditions. They went first to Africa (recounted in another book) and then on to Alaska, where they cruised among the islands of Prince William Sound and the Bering Sea hunting for walrus, moose, sheep, caribou, and bear. Herbert begins with a warning that some may "regard all forms of taking life as unwomanly" and advises anyone with that opinion to read no further, for "We went to Alaska to shoot, and--we shot." Arctic Bib. 7007; Wickersham 2954.
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