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Lord Lonsdale’s travels in the Arctic regions of North America: a Bidarka voyage, Alaska..., 1890. Creator: Unknown.

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Lord Lonsdale's travels in the Arctic regions of North America: a Bidarka voyage, Alaska - ready to start, 1890. 'The enterprising and courageous performance of the Earl of Lonsdale in travelling northward, from the Saskatchewan River of the Great Western Territory of Canada to the shores of the Arctic Ocean, and thence crossing Alaska westward to the North Pacific...has excited much attention...Few people, except some officers of the Hudson Bay Company and of the Alaska Fur Company, have made acquaintance with those desolate regions..."On arriving at Katmai, I was anxious to send letters on to Kodiac (the Alaska trading port, on an island). To do this, it was necessary to persuade the Indians to go in two 'bidarkas,' which can be done in safety by taking the right moment. [The Illustration] shows them ready to start with my letters. It was, however, a month before I received any answer".' From "Illustrated London News", 1890.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A51_078

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18,9Mo (2,4Mo) / 30,7cm x 15,5cm / 3626 x 1826 (300dpi)

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transport transportation river North America people male man men arts remote art guy British letter letters geography Alaska Arctic native Native American location canoe century Britain message messages newspapers press kayak print concept correspondence riverbank B&W American Indian Inuit United States of America 19th century Arctic Circle water transport black & white black and white B W Aleut nineteenth century The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN ILN indigenous newspaper indigenous people Unknown Earl of George Lonsdale William Henry 19th-century The Illustrated London News William Henry Gilder Gilder Hugh Cecil Lowther 5th Earl of Lonsdale Earl of Lonsdale Hugh Lowther Lowther Hugh Cecil Lord Lonsdale Aleutian kayak baidarka George Meisenbach Meisenbach William Gil