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Published by Mcgill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1994
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xxviii, 403 p. 28 cm. 49 b&w and colour figures. Black cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Dampstain to jacket's lower rear edge. Some wrinkling and faint stains to lower edges of text block.
Published by McGill-Queen's University Press October 1994, 1994
ISBN 10: 0773511814ISBN 13: 9780773511811
Seller: Hennessey + Ingalls, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Used - Like New. Arctic Artist is the liveliest and most complete account of Sir John Franklin's tragic first Arctic land expedition. George Back's prose captures the drama of this journey, and his superb watercolour sketches reveal the beauty and wonder of this northern land. Back's journal completes Stuart Houston's trilogy of the journals of Franklin's officers, and is particularly valuable because it is the only journal that records the entire expedition; Franklin himself relied on it for his own published account of the journey. Houston provides an introduction and extensive annotations, as well as synopses of the frank comments regarding the expedition recorded in the various journals of the Hudson's Bay fur trade posts. I.S. MacLaren's commentary on Back's paintings reveals a naval officer of exceptional talent. Conversant with the artistic conventions and aesthetic temper of his age, Back used his sketchbooks not only to depict the expedition's progress but also to capture his imaginative response to the northern wilderness. MacLaren also edits and comments on two other documents written by Back during the expedition: a candid letter to his brother and a poem dramatizing the disaster that claimed the lives of eleven of the twenty explorers in Franklin's party. Arctic Artist is the liveliest and most complete account of Sir John Franklin's tragic first expedition to the Arctic. George Back's prose captures the drama of the journey, while his superb watercolour sketches reveal the beauty and wonder of this northern land. Published for the first time, this is the complete text of Back's journal. Arctic Artist completes Stuart Houston's trilogy of the journals of Franklin's officers. Minor shelf wear at edges. Overall, book is in great shape. Neat, clean, and unmarked. Inside is unworn with crisp pages and a tight binding.
Published by McGill-Queen's, 1994, 1994
ISBN 10: 0773511814ISBN 13: 9780773511811
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Condition: as new. Dust Jacket Condition: as new. Hbk small 4to 403pp, profusely illustr maps, color and b+w plates, appears unused and an excellent clean tight unmarked copy in fine unclipped, sleeve-protected dj as new, gift quality.
Published by McGill Queens Univ Press, Ithaca, New York, 1994
ISBN 10: 0773511814ISBN 13: 9780773511811
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Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Larger 8vo pp. 403, signed by the author. "'Arctic Artist' is the liveliest and most complete account of Sir John Franklin's tragic first Arctic land expedition. George Back's prose captures the drama of this journey, and his superb watercolour sketches reveal the beauty and wonder of this northern land. Back's journal completes Stuart Houston's trilogy of the?. Signed by Author. book.