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Bezig met laden... Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador (origineel 1908; editie 2011)door Mina Benson Hubbard (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkA Woman's Way through Unknown Labrador door Mina Benson Hubbard (1908)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Not great writing but the continuation of a great story. Mrs. Hubbard, with excellent guides, completes a journey that here husband planned and died of starvation in the attempt to finish. His journey is detailed in ''The Lore of the Labrador Wild'', written by Dillon Wallace who, just, survived the expedition. Wallace was saved by the efforts of George Ellison who became Mrs. Hubbard's guide. Mrs. Hubbard thought Wallace's account very disrespectful to the memory of her husband and determined to succeed and bring honor back to her husbands name. To add drama Wallace made a second expedition that ran the same season as Mrs. Hubbard's. Mrs. Hubbard, again with excellent guides, beat Wallace to the goal by a very large measure. Modern reprints list Mrs. Hubbard as "Mina Benson Hubbard'. honoring her work as and early 20th Century woman. I retain the appellation as Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard since that is how she published it and it was in honor and defense of her husband that she undertook the expedition. To my mind not enough credit has been paid to the Indian and Metis guides on all three expeditions. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
In 1903 Hubbard's husband, Leonidas, starved to death on his cartographic and ethnographic expedition to Labrador. Hubbard decided to complete her husband's work, becoming a skilled explorer and cartographer in her own right. She set out in July 1905 and with the help of George Elson, a M©?tis guide who had been employed by her husband on the original trip, and three other guides completed her expedition in record time with significant results, including completing the first accurate map of the Labrador river system, thus correcting the earlier map that had led to her husband's death. Her original photographs and the map are reproduced in this volume. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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