Alaska & the Klondike: Early Writings and Historic Photographs: Selected Phot...
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Alaska & the Klondike: Early Writings and Historic Photographs: Selected Phot.... Alaska & the Klondike: Early Writings and Historic Photographs: Selected Photographs and Excerpts from Early Books about Alaska and the Klond by Hegener, Helen Elizabeth, ISBN 1717401996, ISBN-13 9781717401991, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Charting an unknown country, exploring a wondrous land, searching for gold, delivering freight and mail beyond where any roads would reach, these were the exciting topics of books which became northland classics, with titles such as 'Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled,' 'The Land of Tomorrow,' and 'Along Alaska’s Great River.'Wonderful photographs accompany the often colorful writings of Frederick Schwatka, Hudson Stuck, Robert Service, Josiah Edward Spurr, and many others as they tell of adventures, explorations, fortunes won and lost, and the magnificent promise of our great northern the words of those intrepid travelers who accepted the challenge of the north and left an indelible mark in their writing of it. Their first-hand observations are invaluable to understanding the history, as when world traveller Frank Carpenter noted while touring the construction of the Alaska Railroad: “I was so fortunate as to see Anchorage in the stump, tent, and shack stage, though it was growing marvelously fast. I give you my notes just as I penned them when I was on the spot, seeing how Uncle Sam’s engineers and executives were putting through their big job.”Selected excerpts are from the following books:Golden Alaska, by Ernest IngersollThe Land of Tomorrow, by William B. Stephenson, Spell of the Yukon & Other Verses, by Robert ServiceThe Ascent of Denali, by Hudson StuckFrom Paris to New York by Land, by Harry DeWindtThrough the Yukon Gold Diggings, by Josiah Edward SpurrA Woman Who Went––To Alaska, by May Kellogg SullivanThe Land of Nome, by Lanier McKeeTen Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled, by Hudson StuckAlong Alaska’s Great River, by Frederick SchwatkaAlaska: Our Northern Wonderland, by Frank CarpenterA Dog-Puncher on the Yukon, by Arthur Treadwell WaldenAlaska author Helen Hegener has compiled an engaging journey through the literary history of Alaska and the Klondike, and an introduction to some of the most compelling books ever written about the North.
