Böcker av Tappan Adney

Between 1887 and 1896, a young Tappan Adney ventured into the uncharted New Brunswick wilderness, writing, sketching, and photographing all that caugth his attention. He learned about the Maliseet people, recorded their names for plants and animals, took detailed notes on their technology -- snowshoes, snares, and birchbark canoes -- and commented astutely on the sometimes difficult relationships between Natives and newcomers. Presenting the third, fourth, and fifth of Adney's journals, The Travel Journals of Tappan Adney: Vol. 2, 1891-1896 vividly narrates Adney's continuing travels in western New Brunswick, relating tales of hunting, trapping, and fishing with an assortment of colourful characters from lumberjacks and hunting guides to members of parliament, including a moose-hunting expedition on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History. This volume, like its predecessor, preserves Adney's distinctive style and the idioms and spellings of the period. It also includes reproductions of his original sketches and numerous photographs.

In 1887, at the tender age of eighteen, Tappan Adney embarked on this first trip to Canada. He had plans to enroll at Columbia University in the fall, primed for a meteoric rise in academia -- but fate intervened. He fell under the spell of the New Brunswick wilderness and the local Maliseet people. Nothing escaped his curiosity, Adney embarked on hunting, fishing, and camping trips, recording his wilderness adventures in New Brunswick, Quebec, and Nova Scotia in his journals. Through evocative sketches and memorable prose, Adney chronicled a time very different from our own, including a caribou hunt decades before the species was extirpated from eastern Canada. Years later, Tappan Adney went on to become a celebrated journalist, photographer, and ethnologist. His models of aboriginal canoes, now in many museum collections, helped save the birchbark canoe from oblivion. This new, revised edition of the first volume of The Travel Journals of Tappan Adney is a welcome companion to the recently published second volume of Adney"s journals. This edition includes a reproduction of his original sketches as well as a corrected text, recently discovered photographs, and larger type for ease of reading.

This classic in Yukon gold rush literature was originally published in 1900 and has long been out of print.