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HOOPER, Lieut. W. H., R.N. /TEN MONTHS AMONG THE TENTS OF THE TUSKI. 
With Incidents of an Arctic Boat Expedition in Search of Sir John 
Franklin, as far as the Mackenzie River, and Cape Bathurst./ John 
Murray, London. 1853.1st edition,  8vo, pp. xv, 417, ads. With ten full 
page plates (four tinted), and two maps (one folding and coloured).

William Hulme Hooper (1827-1854) was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and 
part of the 1848 expedition, under the command of Capt. T. E. L. Moore, 
to search for the ill-fated Franklin expedition. Moore's expedition 
spent three years in the high Arctic, wintering the first year 
(1848-1849) on the Chukotsk Peninsula, later sailing to the Beaufort 
Sea. From there, Hooper made two overland trips up the Mackenzie River 
to Fort Simpson, on the second of which he travelled overland to Norway 
House, The Pas, and south through what is now Manitoba to reach the 
voyageur route back to Montreal, and thence to England (see Arctic 
Bibliography 7395). This is a very scarce account, seldom mentioned in 
most histories of Arctic exploration, and often overlooked in the lore 
of the search for Sir John Franklin and his party. Notwithstanding, 
Hooper's account is full of interesting information and observations, 
including detailed descriptions of the life, customs, dwellings, 
clothing and beliefs of the Chukchis (Tuski), and of the North Alaska 
Eskimo generally; as well as notes on the Mackenzie Eskimo and Indians, 
sea and river ice,
hunting and trapping, and the character of the territory covered in his 
journies. This copy has been professionally re-backed, with a new 
complimentary spine, but retains the original cloth boards (showing the 
gilt-stamped design of an Eskimo hunter). There are new endpapers. The 
contents are clean and tight. Overall, a very good copy of an 
exceedingly scarce Arctic title.

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