Krech III, Shepard

A Victorian Earl in the Arctic. The Travels and Collections of the Fifth Earl of Lonsdale, 1888-89.

Seattle University of Washington Press 1989, First edition. Biographical introduction by J.V. Beckett. Quarto. 207pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs, some in color. Extensive notes, bibliography and index. Blue cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Hugh Lowther, fifth Earl of Lonsdale, was one of the wealthiest and most public members of the British aristocracy. In 1888 he headed for the North American Arctic and Subarctic, encouraged to travel by numerous scandals arising at home from his lifestyle. This handsome book publishes his journals and correspondence of that year and catalogues the amazing and very important collection of native artifacts that he brought home with him. Lonsdale recorded his immediate impressions and observations of the country and the inhabitants he met, including Indians, Eskimos, white traders, and missionaries.

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