TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE IN THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA Frederick Whymper 1868 1st UK ed Hardcover Very Good (Whymper, Frederick)

	Item #: OP1640A-338 TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE IN THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA Frederick Whymper 1868 1st UK ed Hardcover Very Good By Whymper, Frederick Price: $45.00 List Price: $150.00 You Save $105.00 (70%) Add to wish list Click Here For Related Selections
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London, 1868, 1st edition. 353 pp, 16 wood-engraved plates and 20 wood-engraved text illustrations, folding map is missing. Half green leather and cloth with damp stain to the lower corners. Very Good. Early account of Russian-American Overland Telegraph Expedition of 1865-66 in Alaska. Whymper was artist on the expedition. See examples of wood-engraved plates below. Frederick Whymper (20 July 1838 in London � 26 November 1901) was a British artist and explorer. Brother of Edward Whymper. Whymper was the eldest son of Elizabeth Whitworth Claridge and Josiah Wood Whymper, a celebrated wood-engraver and artist. His younger brother Edward Whymper was a renowned alpinist who made the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. In his youth, Whymper was a talented artist working to produce engravings for publication and having his landscapes on exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 1859 to 1861. He travelled to Victoria, British Columbia in 1862 and to the Cariboo in the following year. In 1864 he joined road builders in the area of Bute Inlet leaving shortly before the Chilcotin War[1]:10 Many of his early travels were by steamship; his drawings include volcanoes on Kamchatka and Alaskan glaciers. While in the far north, Whymper served on the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition, the Western Union Telegraph Expedition (1865), spending the winter of 1866 at Nulato, Alaska with W.H. Dall and travelling up the Yukon River to Fort Yukon, where he witnessed the first American flag being raised over the new territory of Alaska. In November 1867, Whymper arrived back in England where his account of his travels, Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, was published in 1868. In 1869, he went back to the United States, by way of New York City to San Francisco and worked on the staff of the newspaper Alta California. City directories describe him as an artist and mining engineer, and in 1871 he was a founding member of the San Francisco Art Association. He returned to England at some point, publishing The Heroes of the Arctic and their Adventures and The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril and Heroism, prior to his death in London on 26 November 1901 by what is listed as "failure of the heart, probably due to indigestion, arising from sedentary pursuits", in his obituary. Mount Whymper north of Lake Cowichan, is named in honor of the early explorer, artist and writer.
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