This 2018 book, compiled and edited by Alaskan author Helen Hegener, is an engaging journey through the literary history of Alaska and the Klondike territories, comprising an introduction to some of the most compelling books ever written about the North. Also available as a Kindle eBook, this collection is an anthology of selected writings by early explorers and travelers in Alaska and the Yukon Territory of Canada, who were charting an unknown country, exploring a wondrous land, searching for gold, and delivering freight and mail beyond where any roads would reach. These intrepid travelers wrote books which became northland classics, with titles such as Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled, A Woman Who Went to Alaska, and From Paris to New York by Land.
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 lands.
The selected excerpts are from the following twelve books:
• Golden Alaska, by Ernest Ingersoll
• The Land of Tomorrow, by William B. Stephenson, Jr.
• The Spell of the Yukon & Other Verses, by Robert Service
• The Ascent of Denali, by Hudson Stuck
• From Paris to New York by Land, by Harry DeWindt
• Through the Yukon Gold Diggings, by Josiah Edward Spurr
• A Woman Who Went––To Alaska, by May Kellogg Sullivan
• The Land of Nome, by Lanier McKee
• Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled, by Hudson Stuck
• Along Alaska’s Great River, by Frederick Schwatka
• Alaska: Our Northern Wonderland, by Frank Carpenter
• A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon, by Arthur Treadwell Walden
Alaska and the Klondike, Early Writings and Historic Photographs, by Helen Hegener, has 324 pages and over 100 photographs in a convenient 6″ x 9″ b/w format, with a bibliography and an index. ISBN 978-1717401991 $24.95 plus $5.00 shipping. Click on the linked title to order, also available at Amazon or through any bookstore.
Also available as a Kindle eBook! The Kindle edition of this book is formatted as a print replica Kindle book, which maintains the rich formatting and layout of the print edition, while offering many of the advantages of standard Kindle books. Features include a pop-out and linked table of contents, page numbers matching the print edition, the ability to zoom in or pan out on a page, and search, copy, and paste features.
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