Fur-clad adventurers ; or, Travels in skin-canoes, on dog-sledges, on reindeer, and on snow-shoes, through Alaska, Kamchatka, and eastern Siberia /
"Z.A. Mudge (1813-88) was an American pastor, author and Arctic exploration enthusiast. After the success of his popular books North Pole Voyages and Arctic Heroes, he wrote this book on the Western Union Telegraph Expedition. In the mid-nineteenth century the Western Union Telegraph Company de...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. : Cincinnati :
Phillips & Hunt; Walden & Stowe,
©1880.
Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press, 2012. |
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| Summary: | "Z.A. Mudge (1813-88) was an American pastor, author and Arctic exploration enthusiast. After the success of his popular books North Pole Voyages and Arctic Heroes, he wrote this book on the Western Union Telegraph Expedition. In the mid-nineteenth century the Western Union Telegraph Company decided to create a telegraph line that would run from San Francisco, California to Moscow, Russia. The line was to run through Alaska and Siberia, and although the project was abandoned in 1867, a large amount of Arctic exploration had been achieved in the meantime. This book, first published in 1880, is Mudge's compilation of the accounts of some of the explorers who were involved in different stages of the expedition." -- from publisher's website. |
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| Item Description: | "This book reproduces the text of the original edition. The content and language reflect the beliefs, practices, and terminology of their time, and have not been updated." -- title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 342 pages : illustrations, plates ; 22 cm |