The Great Lone Land; A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America. By Colonel W.F. Butler, C.B., F.R.G.S. With illustrations and route map. Fourteenth Edition. London Sampson Low, Marston & Company. With large folding litographed map (as frontspiece) and 6 plates in original dark red/brown cloth. Text and plates clean. Butler's accounts of his adventures are the most poetic and the most personable of the 19th-century Canadian travel narratives. His lyrical descriptions of landscape, climate and seasonal change testify to his deep admiration for the sheer, unpopulated expanse and beauty of the Canadian West. Sent by the English in 1870 to gather intelligence about the Red River Resistance. Butler actually met with Louis Riel at Fort Garry; his description of the encounter remains one of the most vivid portraits of Riel in our literature (Canadian Encyclopedia). He accompliced his winter journey of 2700 miles in 119 days. He travelled across the prairies to Edmonton and the Rockies via the fur trade route visiting fort Ellis, Carlton and Pitt and Victoria settlement. Book/binding very good. No spotting. Ca. 500 gr.