Abstract

Alaska

This article presents information on two books. The book "A Winter Circuit of Our Arctic Coast," is written by Hudson Stuck and "The Land of Tomorrow," by William B. Stephenson. But Stuck, in his fourth book on Alaskan travel, wrote an absorbing narrative of a six months' journey around the entire Arctic coast, that bleak top of the world where the ink freezes as it issues from the fountain pen and the winter lights play above vast plains of sterile white. There is a quiet and peculiar charm, distinctly of the North, in this narrative of what would have been, to many men, day-to-day travel. Another interesting though quite different book on Alaska is "The Land of Tomorrow," by William B. Stephenson. He has written an excellent book of general information about those portions of Alaska where the white man has settled, and with considerable artistry he has managed to put into his book some of the lure, the freedom, and the thrill of life in that land of the last frontier.