THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES: A CANOE-JOURNEY OF 2000 MILES IN SEARCH OF THE CARIBOU... By Ernest Thompson Seton.

(1911) 1920 revised edition. 8vo (143 x 208mm). Ppxii,308. B/w photograph plates, b/w illustrations, maps. Salmon and musk-ox motifs and titles printed in black to green cloth, spine titled in gilt.

"...Being the account of a Voyage to the region north of Aylmer Lake"". Still the wild buffalo elude the hunters, fight the wolves, wallow, wander, and breed; and still there is hoofed game by the million as on the Missouri in the times of Lewis and Clarke. Only we must seek it all, not in the West, but in the far North-west; and for 'Missouri and Mississippi' read 'Peace and Mackenzie Rivers,' those noble streams that northward roll their mile-wide turbid floods a thousand leagues to the silent Arctic Sea. This was the thought which spurred me to a six-months' journey by canoe. And I found what I went in search of, but found, also, abundant and better rewards that were not in mind, even as Saul, the son of Kish, went seeking asses and found for himself a crown and a great kingdom". Chapters include: Departure for the North; Down the noisy river (the Athabaska) with the voyageurs; Human nature on the river - lobsticks, the Great Slave River; Down the silent river with the Mounted Police; A conference with the chiefs; Out with Sousi Beaulieu; The buffalo hunt; Thomas Anderson; Mosquitos; A bad case; The second buffalo hunt; Bezkya and the pills; Fort Smith and the social queen; Rabbits and lynxes in the North-West; Ebb and flow of animal life; The pelican trip; The third buffalo hunt; Down to fundamentals; On the Nyarling - the Great Slave Lake, the Nyarling Tessi, or Underground River; Fort Resolution and its folk; The Chipewayans, their speech and writing; The dogs of Fort Resolution; The voyage across the (Great Slave) lake; Crossing the lake, its natural history; The lynx at bay - photographing a lynx; Pike's Portage, the deathbirds, the storm and the wolverine; Caribou-land at last; Good-bye to the woods; The treeless plains; The unknown; Aylmer Lake; The musk-ox; The Arctic prairies and my farthest north; Facing homeward; The first woods; Farewell to the caribou; Old Fort Reliance to Fort Resolution; Going up the lower slave; Fort Smith and the tug; Fort McKay and Jiarobia; The river; The river shows its teeth; When nature smiled; The end.