The Canadian Rockies: New and Old Trails (Mountain Classics Collection #1)

by Arthur Philemon Coleman, Chic Scott (Foreward by)

Overview

Arthur Philemon Coleman was a passionate Canadian and one of the first to truly discover the beauty and majesty of this country''s mountain ranges as an explorer, geologist and mountaineer. In 1884, before the railway traversed the Rocky and Columbia m

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781926855370
Publisher:	Rocky Mountain Books
Publication date:	02/01/2011
Series:	Mountain Classics Collection
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	418 KB

About the Author

Arthur Philemon Coleman was born in Lachute, Quebec, on April 4, 1852. For most of his professional life he taught at Victoria College, part of the University of Toronto, and spent a great deal of time adventuring throughout western Canada. In all, Coleman and his Morley, Alberta-based brother, Lucius Quincy Coleman made eight successive trips to the Canadian Rockies. Coleman was in his 80s on his last trip. He died in 1939 never having climbed Mount Robson, the object of his mountaineering obsession.