8vo. 32 color-printed plates tipped in, one folding map. (Frontispiece disbound, some minor spotting to last few leaves.) Original publisher's decorated cloth (a touch of wear to extremities, otherwise bright).

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION in a fine publisher's cloth binding. "Austin's best writing, which is concerned with nature or Native American life, is reminiscent of the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Muir in its transcendental tone and occasional primitivist leaning"(Encyclopaedia Britannica). Inman, A & C Black Colour Books 649.