The Yukon and Northwest Territories
by McCourt, Edward

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Most Canadians are aware of their northland. But for many that awareness is a shadowy blend of newspaper accounts of distant tragedies and grandiose schemes for exploiting rich natural resources, of occasional television documentaries, the poems of Robert Service, and half-remembered facts. Only a fraction of Canada's twenty-one million people live there and of the rest few have visited the region. Yet many of the settled parts of the Yukon and Northwest Territories are now accessible by car over the Alaska and Mackenzie highways. To a summer's journeying along these two great land routes to the north Edward McCourt brought the sharply observant eye of a skilled travel writer, and he tells of the people of the Territories and the tightly knit communities they have created in the northern immensity.

The Canadian north is particularly rich in history and legend. With sure knowledge Mr. McCourt has woven into his narrative the tales of the Klondike Gold Rush, of explorers and fur traders, of the exploits of the Mounted Police, and of characters as different as Diamond-Tooth Gertie and Twelve-Foot Davis.

For the tourist planning a trip over the long and lonely highways of the north there is practical advice on the delights and hazards he may encounter; for the armchair traveller there is the pleasure of a fascinating journey with a companionable guide; and for all there is a better understanding of the “lure of the north.”

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Weight:	0.40 kg
Price:	CDN$ 20.00 (US$ 19.46)

Stock Number:	70608AN
Author:	McCourt, Edward
Publisher:	Macmillan Co Toronto ON
Publication Date:	1969
Pages:	236 pp
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. light blue boards w/gold pressed title/author lettering on backstrip; jacket has been price-clipped, and shows wear/chipping alon g top edge. Illus; 236pp.
First Edition:	First Edition