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Lees, J. A., and W. J. Clutterbuck : B. C. 1887. A Ramble in British Columbia

(London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892)

Crown 8vo; original burgundy cloth, lettered in silver gilt on spine and upper cover; pp. viii + 387 + (i) + 24; frontis. with tissue guard; several plates; illustrations in text; folding map at end. Cloth rather rubbed, and frayed at spine ends; spine cocked; gift inscription to half-title; rather foxed throughout; some soiling. Fair condition. 'The wise men, we are told, came from the East, a fact which is conspicuously apparent to any traveller in those counties which are reached from Liverpool Street Station. Whither they have gone is another matter not so easily decided, but it seems to be very natural to suppose that they went to the West. Through countless ages the same process has been going on, and still the wiser ones of our own time year by year betake themselves to those regions which, in the words of an eminent divine, are "bounded on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the the west by the Setting Sun, on the north by the Aurora Borealis, and on the south by the Day of Judgment." Thus it came about that the writers, seeing no other chance of commending their wisdom to a too censorious world, determined to try a ramble in the mountains of British Columbia.' - Authors' Introduction

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