Historic Waterways: Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers

A very early edition of the book originally published in 1888. In very good condition for its age. The only condition faults we found were on the covers - wear along the edges of the spine and bottom front cover, minor wear and bumping at the corners, an inscription on the inside front cover that has bled onto the adjacent flyleaf page, and minor soiling on the insde covers and adjacent shadowing on the inside covers and adjacent flyleaf pages; and two pages with issues issues - the title page has a snall section missing along the bottom of the page edge, and page 95/96 has a small chip along the edge as well as a stain along the margin edges from page 92 through page 95.

From Wikipedia (abridged): "...

Thwaites is credited with raising the scholarship surrounding the Lewis and Clark Expedition to a new level. Previous to the editions that were published under his leadership, general knowledge as well as serious scholarship were for the most part hampered by legend. Thwaites discovered and uncovered various additional original sources, including the journal of Charles Floyd, the only member of the Corps of Discovery to die on the expedition. By including these disparate sources and tying them together in a cohesive set of volumes, the nature and importance of the expedition became more generally recognized.[7]

In 1892 Thwaites was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society,[8] in 1899 he was president of the American Library Association, and in 1910 he was named president of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association.

Thwaites was well known for not being a mere academic, but rather as a historian who attempted to understand history by experiencing those aspects that he could, and bringing those experiences to life.>[9] In 1888 he took canoe trips on the Wisconsin, Fox and Rock rivers.[10] In 1892 he undertook a bicycle tour of England, and in 1903 rowed down the Ohio River..."