2000, ISBN: dad3b5dfbc704fde8fc53273257da462

Harry D Windt (1856-1933) was an explorer in the pay of several magazines and newspapers for which he chronicled his travels, for example, from China to France by land and from Paris to N… Meer...

Harry D Windt (1856-1933) was an explorer in the pay of several magazines and newspapers for which he chronicled his travels, for example, from China to France by land and from Paris to New York by land and over ice. To celebrate this fete, Teddy Roosevelt invited him to lunch at the Whitehouse. From Russa, he went to India on horseback. He wrote books about his adventures as well as novels and poems. Later for a time, grads of Magdalene College, Cambridge, where De Windt studied, were not considered suitably graduated unless they undertook a De Windt-style exploration.One of De Windt's explorations was the length of the Yukon River, from its headwaters to the Bering Straits. He passed where Dawson City would be months before gold was discovered on nearby Rabbit Creek (later named Bonanza). His stop at the site makes for an interesting view of the area, used then by First Nation's people as a fish camp. He records the name of the river as Thron-Duick, which soon became known as the Klondike. By the time De Windt was writing and publishing his book about traveling the 2000-mile length of the Yukon, the Klonidke Gold Rush was underway. One can imagine his seeking to capitalize on the phenomenon by incorporating the suggestion of it in his title. But the gold fields referred to are downriver from Dawson across the border in the vicinity of Circle, Alaska. Gold in that region was nothing compared to what was found in August 1896 in what became known as the Klondike Gold Fields.Still, De Windt's chronicle with others in a canoe makes for interesting reading about the nature of the great Yukon River and its features. Schwatka's lucid account of the same journey in 1883 is seminal, but De Windt's also reads well and supplies details that amplify Schwatka and gives an up-to-date view of the river when being populated by prospectors.This is an ex-library first edition that has been rebound in cloth boards. Pieces on the spine appear to be from the original, gold-embossed leather cover. Fortunately the pages contain but one library stamp. The endpapers and inner covers are marbled. Most of the fold-out map at the front is torn away; a copy has been placed there for reference. Otherwise, the pages are complete, untorn, and unmarked. The period photographs are clear on gloss paper. The binding is very tight, making it something of a chore to go through the book, but the strong binding protects and holds the pages well. The book is not scarce. In reprint, it sells for $9.99. Thirty copies of the original hardbound were found to be selling for from $33.95 to $39 to $42. One in England is priced at £380.For sale here is a potentially collectible rebound ex-library copy selling for a below-market price., Chatto & Windus, 1898, 2.5<

ISBN: dad3b5dfbc704fde8fc53273257da462

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 23.43], [PU: Harper & Brothers], First edition copy. . (Yukon, Klondike River Valley, Alaska)

ISBN: dad3b5dfbc704fde8fc53273257da462

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 22.47], [PU: Harper & Brothers], First edition copy. . (Yukon, Klondike River Valley, Alaska)