THE JOURNALS OF ANDREW J. STONE; Expeditions to Arctic and Subarctic America for Mountain Sheep, Goat, Caribou, Grizzly, Moose, and Muskoxen 1896-1903.
Safari Press. 2012 Long Beach, 1st edn, 428pp, photos, drawings, limited to 250 signed, numbered, slipcased copies, Signed by R. Margaret Frisina and Wilson R. Stone. Fine in fine slipcase. Item #007155
New York City was abuzz on 3 April 1903; Andrew J. Stone, world-renowned Arctic explorer and hunter-naturalist, was fêted with a dinner/reception at the American Museum of Natural History. The East Mammal Hall was festooned with many specimens obtained by Stone on his three major expeditions into British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, and Alaska. But within a few years his amazing legacy faded into the shadows as the world’s attention was consumed by international conflict. Today Stone is most widely known by hunters—sheep hunters in particular—as the man who in 1896 obtained a specimen of the “black sheep, named Stone sheep (Ovis dalli stonei) in his honor. It was Stone who established that Dall and Stone sheep are distinct populations. Fortunately, Stone kept a series of journals during his travels from 1896 through 1903 in which he recorded his struggles against raging blizzards, hostile natives, daunting physical risks, and mind-warping loneliness and boredom. Original black-and-white photos taken by Stone on expedition have been included.
Price: $125.00