POOLE, Francis [d. 1874]. Queen Charlotte Islands. A Narrative Of Discovery And Adventure In The North Pacific.Edited By John W. Lyndon [Pseud.]. 8vo. pp. xiv, [2], 347, [1]. with half-title. 3 wood-engraved plates (incl. frontis.), title vignette & 2 maps. contemporary half calf, gilt back (somewhat rubbed). London: Hurst & Blackett, 1872.
First Edition. One of the few books specifically devoted to the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, based on the diaries of the first resident Englishman, and edited by John Wyse under the pseudonym of John W. Lyndon. Francis Poole, civil and mining engineer, was employed in 1862 by the Queen Charlotte Mining Company to prospect and develop copper mines at Skincuttle Inlet. The work contains an account of the mining enterprise and other details of Poole's eighteen-month stay, his problems with his rebellious white labourers and his relations with the Haida Indians, his 1864 voyage in a war canoe with the Haida chief from Queen Charlotte Island to Victoria, and his impressions of Jamaica, Acapulco, San Francisco, Vancouver Island, Victoria, and other places visited on the outgoing and return trips.
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