The edge of the wilderness : a portrait of the Canadian North

Type

Book

Authors

Frank Earle Schoonover ( Schoonover, Frank Earle )

ISBN 10

0458910805

ISBN 13

9780458910809

Tags

Frank E. Schoonover -- 1877-1972, Northern Canada -- In art, Northern Canada -- Description and travel, Indigenous peoples -- North America, Travel, Northern Canada, Indigenous peoples -- Northern Canada -- Pictorial works

Abstract

"First U.S. edition. Edited by Cortlandt Schoonover. Frank E. Schoonover 1877-1972 studied under Howard Pyle and was the original illustrator of Jack London's White Fang. He made several extended visits to Northern Canada in the early twentieth century, a 1,200 mile winter expedition by snowshoe and dogsled in 1903-1904, and a summer expedition in 1911, when he travelled by canoe and portage. This is a collection of his day book records, stories, paintings and photographs from that time. With 85 paintings and illustrations. Bookplate of Doris Frohnsdorff laid in. Some wear to jacket. viii , 166 pages. cloth, dust jacket."--Amazon.

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