1785 Man of Kamchatka Traveling in Winter
DESCRIPTION
A Kamchatka traveler on a dog sled appears in this excerpted plate from the French edition of the official account of Captain Cook's third voyage.
In it, a man in a fur-trimmed hooded coat sits sideways on a light sled with long runners, holding a short staff, as a team of five dark dogs in harness pulls him across the snow. Bare birches frame the scene on either side, and a snow-covered mountain rises above the forest beyond. The caption reads "Homme du Kamtchatka voyageant en hiver," or "Man of Kamchatka traveling in winter."
Cook's Third Voyage
After Captain Cook's death in Hawaii in 1779, his ships sailed north and called at Petropavlovsk on Kamchatka, where the expedition's artist, John Webber, drew the local people and their dog sleds. The official account of the voyage appeared in London in 1784 with plates after Webber's drawings, and a French translation followed in Paris in 1785 with its plates re-engraved under the direction of Robert Bénard.
CONDITION
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