DU CHAILLU, Paul B. "Land of the Midnight Sun" [Harper & Bros, 1882]

DU CHAILLU, Paul B. Land of the Midnight Sun: Summer and Winter Journeys through Sweden, Norway, Lapland and Northern Finland.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882. Complete in two volumes. 9" x 6.25", xvi + 441pp + xvi + 474pp with 235 pages and a full color folded map (23" x 19") tucked into "cover-pocket" in rear. Blue-teal cloth with golden sun motifs, as well as gilt titles and red birds. Light rubbing to extremities. Vol 1 has two indentations to cover edges, Vol 2 has some rubbing to front board face. Hinges are secure and textblocks clean. Very Good.

Following his famed explorations in equatorial Africa, Du Chaillu turned his attention northward, producing one of the earliest vivid travel accounts of Scandinavia available in English. Land of the Midnight Sun combined careful ethnographic observation with an adventurer’s enthusiasm, documenting the landscapes, folklore, and daily life of the Sámi and other northern peoples. The work was praised in its day for bringing the remote Arctic world into the Victorian imagination with both scientific detail and narrative charm.