Saskatchewan and The Rocky Mountains.
CARNEGIE, James [The Earl of Southesk].
Saskatchewan and The Rocky Mountains.
First Edition of James Carnegie's Saskatchewan and The Rocky Mountains
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1875.
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First edition of this diary and travel narrative through western Canada. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles and ruling to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrated with 6 wood-engraved plates, 5 lithographic plates, and 2 folding maps on glazed linen. In very good condition with inner hinges neatly reinforced.
James Carnegie, the 9th Earl of Southesk, authored Saskatchewan and The Rocky Mountains (1875) as a detailed narrative of his 1859 hunting expedition across western Canada. The work combines ethnographic observation, natural history, and travel writing, reflecting the Victorian fascination with exploration and the Canadian wilderness. Carnegie's account is particularly valuable for its descriptions of Indigenous peoples, the landscape of the Saskatchewan plains, and the rugged terrain of the Rocky Mountains, which he encountered before Canadian Confederation and large-scale settlement transformed the region. His perspective, shaped by aristocratic privilege and a romantic sensibility, illustrates both the imperial gaze of a British nobleman and an early literary contribution to the documentation of Canada’s interior.
