Abstract

To the Arctic Regions and Back in Six Weeks

The article presents information on the book "To the Arctic Regions and Back in Six Weeks," by Alex W.M. Clark Kennedy. The book focuses on a summer tour to Lapland and Norway. It must be confessed that it is only by courtesy that the journey described here can be called Arctic. The northernmost point was Tromsö, which lies to the south of 70° north latitude. The account given of the trip is simple and unpretending, and contains a great deal of information likely to be valuable to travelers, sportsmen, and naturalists. There is no attempt at fine writing, though the pages devoted to the Laps and the reindeer are really interesting. The life of the Laplanders being made up of wanderings from place to place to obtain food for their deer, it might be expected that the only form of wealth known to them would be found to consist of these animals.