Through the Gold-Fields of Alaska to Bering Straits.

Through the Gold-Fields of Alaska to Bering Straits.

by Harry De Windt
Through the Gold-Fields of Alaska to Bering Straits.

Through the Gold-Fields of Alaska to Bering Straits.

by Harry De Windt

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Overview

Elibron Classics. Replica of 1898 edition by Harper & Brothers, New York and London.
A narrative of the expedition taken by Captain Harry Willes Darell de Windt from Alaska to Siberia throughout the Bering Straight at the end of 19th century.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940016400235
Publisher: Adegi Graphics LLC
Publication date: 02/14/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 400
File size: 8 MB

About the Author

Captain Harry Willes Darell de Windt (9 April 1856, Paris - 30 November 1933, Bournemouth) was the aide-de-camp to his brother-in-law Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (Harry's sister Margaret was Brooke's wife), and is best known as an explorer and travel writer.[1] His books were published under the name of Harry de Windt.

Harry de Windt was the son of Captain Joseph Clayton Jennyns de Windt, of Blunston Hall, Highworth. He was admitted to Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1875, but did not take a degree, travelling with his brother-in-law from 1876 to 1878.[2] He was married several times, his first wife was Frances Laura Arabella Long, sister to the 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall, whom he married in London in 1882. They were divorced in 1888. There was one child from this union, a daughter, Margaret Maude. Harry married (2ndly) Hilda Frances E Clark in 1899. She died in 1924. In 1927 Harry married the actress Charlotte Elizabeth Ihle, better known by her stage name, Elaine Inescourt.
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