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hours of my life. The deepest silence seemed to press down on all the 

 vast, immeasurable virgin landscape. The sun near the horizon red- 

 dened the edges of belted cloud-bars near the base of the sky, and the 

 jagged ice-boulders crowded together over the frozen ocean stretching 

 indefinitely northward ... it was to the far north that I ever found 

 myself turning, to where the ice met the sky." Written in the full flush 

 of a new and absorbing experience, this book has a bright, spontaneous 

 charm that, coupled with the almost universal appeal of Arctic explor- 

 ation, is sure to make it a favorite. MRP 



"Two Summers in To stand where the foot of man has never trod, 

 THE Ice Wilds particularly at this period of the earth's history, is 

 OF Eastern an inspiring and memorable experience. It does not 



Karakoram"* happen as often as some writers would have us 

 think. Many a lesser explorer, believing himself 

 the first ever to penetrate a region, has come upon some such record of 

 human occupation as the cairn of rocks found by Mrs. Workman high 

 up on the Rose Glacier. But to Dr. Hunter Workman and Mrs. Bul- 

 lock Workman the conquest of virgin peaks of almost incredible height 

 and the exploration of great glaciers is already an old story, as readers 

 of their earlier writings know. The present volume describes two ex- 

 peditions during the summer of 191 1 and 1912, including explorations 

 of the Hushe and Kondus Glacier Systems of the Eastern Karakoram in 

 Kashmir. The story of the first summer, told by Dr. Workman, con- 

 fines itself largely to the scientific aspects of their discoveries. Mrs. 

 Workman's narrative of the 1912 journey, on the other hand, has a more 

 lively tone, richer in human incident. The story of months-long camp- 

 ing above 16,000 feet in altitude; of the first ascents of peaks 21,000 feet 

 high; of caravan troubles with coolies, such as the pilfering of supplies 

 and wanton extravagance with precious wood ; of the two lives claimed 

 by the glacier — all is told with vigor and a fine sense of values. Mrs. 

 Workman was the originator and leader of the second expedition. Dr. 

 Workman was "photographer and glacialist" ; and with them also went 

 Mr. Grant Peterkin, surveyor, and Sarjan Singh, a native plane-tabler. 

 Three guides, Cyprian Savoye, Quazier Simeon, and Rey Adolf, and 

 two porters, Rey Julian and Chenoz Cesare, who later lost his life in a 

 crevasse of the Bilaphond Glacier, were also a part of the expedition. 

 The third part of the book is made up of discussions of the physio- 

 graphical features of the Bilaphond, Siachen (Rose) and Kaberi basins 

 and glaciers by Dr. Workman, The illustrations throughout the book 

 are very numerous and of exceptional beauty. The "geographical re- 



*Two Summers in the Ice Wilds of Eastern Karakoram. The Exploration of 

 Nineteen Hundred Square Miles of Mountain and Glacier. By Fanny Bullock 

 Workman and William Hunter Workman. With three maps and one hundred 

 and forty-one illustrations by the authors. E. P. Dutton & Company, New York. 

 Pages,296. Price, $8.00. 



