The ladies, the Gwich'in, and the Rat

travels on the Athabasca, Mackenzie, Rat, Porcupine, and Yukon Rivers in 1926

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The ladies, the Gwich'in, and the Rat

travels on the Athabasca, Mackenzie, Rat, Porcupine, and Yukon Rivers in 1926

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In 1926, Clara Coltman Rogers and Gwendolen Dorrien Smith paddled alone down the Porcupine River west of the continental divide toward the Gwitchin community at Old Crow, Yukon Territory. In 1961, Clara, now Lady Vyvyan, published Arctic Adventure, the story of their trip. She records their encounters with mounties, Inuit, Dene, traders, trappers, and missionaries as the women travel over the Divide in search of the Klondike gold rush and the North of Robert Service.

This edition adds fifty-nine black-and-white photographs of the early North, plus colour reproductions of twelve watercolour sketches Gwendolen Dorrien Smith made as the women travelled. Their field diaries and their many letters home sometimes suggest that the women knew they carried with them the norms of the British Empire. These writings offer a new understanding of women's early efforts to shape a voice and sensibility by which to record and inscribe the northern wilderness.

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English
Pages
311

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Edition Notes

Previous edition has title: Arctic adventure.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Edmonton

Classifications

Library of Congress
F1060.9 .V92 1998, F1060.9.V92 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
l, 311 p. :
Number of pages
311

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22453129M
Internet Archive
ladiesgwichinrat0000vyvy
ISBN 10
0888643020
LCCN
97910999, 99171641, cn97910999
OCLC/WorldCat
38432848
Library Thing
6011987
Goodreads
1328849

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