AFTER BIG GAME IN THE UPPER YUKON
Written by Nevill A.D. Armstrong
Published by John Long
in 1937
- Categorised in:
- FIELD SPORTS
- BIG GAME
- HUNTING
- ALASKA
- CANADA
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AFTER BIG GAME IN THE UPPER YUKON
Written by Nevill A.D. Armstrong.
Stock no. 818148
1st.
1937.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
Green cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Covers unevenly faded and browned. Wear to edges. Repaired split to top of spine. Some foxing throughout and to outer page edges.
Front cover
Contents
- Part One: An Introduction to the country of the Macmillan, five hundred miles from civilization, with observations on the big game that abound, their habits and some adventures. Also a description of the fur-bearing animals and the life of the trapper.
- I. My Hunting Country
- II. Big Game of the Yukon
- III. A Trapper's Life in the Sub-Arctic
- Part Two: The reord of a successful trip in 1914, with some thrilling encounters and the details of the "Bag".
- i. The Journey to the Macmillan River, 1914
- II. Sheep: The finest Sprort in the World
- III. After Caribou - And Grizzlies by the Way
- IV. After Moose
- V. We Return to Fort Selkirk
- Part Three: Prospecting and Hunting in the territory round the Macmillan, 1925
- I. Off to the Macmillan Again
- II. Adventures in the Great Sheep Basin
- III. The Big Bulll Caribou - and Others
- IV. Human Interlude
- V. Adventures with Moose
- VI. Way Out Stories
- Part Four: Further Stalks - and many kills - in the Upper Yukon, 1926
- I. A Preliminary Skirmish for Meat
- II. After Sheep
- III. The Big Moose
- IV. I Kill My Second Grizzly
- V. A Fine Bull Caribou (Rangifer Osborni)
- Appendices:
- I. Classification of Caribou in the Upper Yukon, together with comments by Mr. E.N. Barclay, Dept. of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
- II. Records of Remarkable Heads
- III. The Setting of Traps and the Skinning of Fur-Bearing Animals
- IV. Transportation Without Horses