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"Based on previously unpublished reports and journals thought to be lost, Through An Unknown Country provides the reader with a harrowing and riveting account of a 19th century expedition through the northern mountain ranges of western Canada. In the winter of 1874-75, Edward Worrell Jarvis (1846 1894) and Charles Francis Hanington (1848-1930) took part in an expedition on behalf of the Canadian Pacific Survey from Quesnel, British Columbia, to Winnipeg, Manitoba. It led them over the northern Rocky Mountains through what would come to be known as Jarvis Pass (Kakwa Provincial Park, British Columbia) and eventually onto the Canadian plains. The trip took them 116 days and covered over 3000 kilometres, of which almost 1500 was travelled on snowshoes. Through An Unknown Country brings together the day-to-day reports of Jarvis and the more entertaining narrative of the epic journey by Hanington into a single volume for the first time. Recounting harrowing treks through deep mountains, densely forested valleys, open foothills and wide prairie, this highly readable adventure story can most certainly be read alongside the better-known journals of Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser, David Thompson and Paul Kane."--

Snowshoes and snowshoeing --- Winter sports --- Jarvis, Edward Worrell, --- Hanington, Charles Francis, --- Hanington, C. F. --- Travel --- Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rocky Mountains, Canadian (B.C. and Alta.) --- Canadian Rocky Mountains (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rocheuses canadiennes (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rockies, Canadian (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rocky Mountains --- Description and travel. --- Discovery and exploration.

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The Alpine Club of Canada imagined the Rockies and neighbouring ranges to the west and the north as s "climber's paradise." Through a century of adventure and advocacy, the ACC led the way to mountain pursuits in spectacular regions. In Climber's paradise, historian and mountain studies specialist Pearl Ann Reichwein presents a compelling case for understanding wild places and human activity within them as parts of a whole. This is a work of invaluable scholarship in the areas of environmental history, public policy, sport studies, recreation, and tourism that gains significantly from the author's personal experience mountaineering and from has interest in mountain culture, This book speaks to mountaineers, environmentalists, travellers across. Canada and beyond, and all of us who embrace nature.

National parks and reserves --- Mountaineering --- Outdoor recreation --- Recreation --- Recreation areas --- Climbing mountains --- Mountain climbing --- Hiking --- Outdoor life --- National reserves --- Parks, National --- Reserves, National --- Parks --- Protected areas --- Public lands --- Forest reserves --- Military reservations --- National protected areas systems --- Natural areas --- History --- Alpine Club of Canada --- ACC --- A.C.C. --- Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.) --- Canadian Rocky Mountains (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rocheuses canadiennes (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rockies, Canadian (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rocky Mountains, Canadian (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rocky Mountains --- Canadian History. --- Mountaineering. --- Parks.