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    Category Arctic;
    Author Edited by C. Stuart Houston
    Title To the Arctic by Canoe 1819-1821: The Journal and Paintings of Robert Hood, Midshipman With Franklin
    Publishing Information Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1974 0773501924
    Description Assosciation Copy to William Laird McKinley: Presentation inscription and laid in letters. 1st Edition: Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Contents clean. Dust jacket has been plasticised and stuck to covers. "Hood's journal, less formal and more lively than Franklin's official account, shows his appreciation of the beauty as well as the harshness of his surroundings and an awareness, unusual in his time, of some of the adverse effects on the native peoples and their environment of the coming of Europeans. His paintings are among the finest as well as the earliest records of the animals and birds of northern Canada." WILLIAM LAIRD McKINLAY 1889- 1983 was one of the scientific staff of the Canadian Arctic Expedition o f 1913-18, author of Karluk . The Great Untold Story of Artic Exploration
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