The editors have extracted comments from his journals on this area and have appended a separate report of Dawson's on the ethnology of the Native people living in the region. Includes 25 photos by Dawson.

But Dawson never wrote his memoirs. So, a century after his death, Phil Jenkins has lent him a hand. Using Dawson's own words, and filling in the gaps in Dawson's voice, Jenkins presents the man who left his heart in western Canada.

An account of a journey in 1889 to the desert region of Canada between Hudson Bay and the Arctic Sea, in order to find and study the musk-ox and its Indian hunters.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Landscapes, rivers, resources, geology, indigenous peoples.... all these subjects were of interest to geologist-explorer Dawson (1849-1901) as he travelled the prairies, the Rockies, Yukon, British Columbia and beyond.