Product Description
A very scarce, first edition of Isobel Wylie Hutchison's brilliant account of the fascinating life of intrepid Estonian-Canadian explorer August Masik, signed by the author to the title page.
First edition.
Very scarce work.
Signed by the author to the title page.
A fantastic account of the life and adventures of Estonian-Canadian explorer, August Masik.
This insightful biography was written during a six-week period when the author lived with Masik on Sandpoint Island, Alaska, in 1933.
Hutchison details Masik's varied history, including his time as a gold-digger, sailor, explorer and trader.
Written by Isobel Wylie Hutchison, a botanist and explorer who spent the best part of 1933-34 sailing around the Alaskan coast, during which she visited Masik.
Illustrated with eight plates and a colour frontispiece.
Collated, complete.
Bound in the publisher's cloth.
Externally, very smart, with rubbing to the extremities, a little fading to the spine and a few marks to cloth.
Ink inscription to front free endpaper.
Internally, firmly bound.
Pages are bright and clean, with just the odd spot or handling mark.
Very Good
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