OCEAN TO OCEAN SANDFORD FLEMING'S EXPEDITION THROUGH CANADA IN 1872. BEING A DIARY KEPT DURING A JOURNEY FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC WITH THE EXPEDITION OF THE ENGINEER- IN-CHIEF OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC AND INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAYS.
Canada & London. 1873. xiv,[2],371pp. plus sixty plates. Frontis. Original red gilt cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down. Edges and spine ends frayed. Binding rather rough. Internally clean. Good. Item #WRCAM2262
Detailed observations during the survey for a railroad route, with some sixty handsome plates of the area traversed. "The expedition crossed the Rocky Mountains by the Yellow Head Pass, journeyed along the north Thompson River to Kamloops, and from there to Yale and the Pacific" - Lowther. "One of the classics of Canadian travel" - Peel. LOWTHER 431. PEEL 642.
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