Translation of book published at Leipzig by Max Spohr in 1884. Account of expedition to western Canada and Alaska by Norwegian sea captain J. Adrian Jacobsen in

Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondi

This book documents, with photographs and complete descriptions, the more than 2,200 Native Alaskan (Eskimo, Aleut, Northwest Coast, and Athapaskan) objects ori