Green cloth binding with gilt title and canoe on the spine. Dog sled and title on the front board.

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A good copy which reads well with tales of life amongst the red Indians and Eskimos. A full-colour frontispiece depicts the Bishop and an Indian companion crossing an icy river. This work includes numerous black-and-white plates depicting the bishop’s travels. William Carpenter Bompas (1834 – 1906) was a Church of England clergyman and missionary in northwestern Canada, first Anglican bishop of the Athabasca diocese, then of the Mackenzie River diocese and then of the
Selkirk (Yukon) diocese as these dioceses were successively carved out of the original Rupert’s Land diocese.