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suits of this expedition" are partially summed up by Mrs, Workman as 

 follows: "About 850 square miles of mountain territory were mapped 

 with plane table. Forty or more peaks were measured in different ways, 

 many by triangulation, by Mr. Grant Peterkin. The Rose Glacier was 

 first explored from end to end, and surveyed to its tongue in the Nu- 

 bra Valley. The north and east Siachen sources . . . were discovered 

 and first visited, and the relation of the Eastern Karakoram and Indus 

 watershed to that of Chinese Turkestan at these points established. . . . 

 A new group of high snow peaks was discovered beyond the east Rose 

 wall on the Turkestan side. The King George V group was first seen 

 and identified as such, and its three highest peaks triangulated. A new 

 pass, 18,700 feet, was discovered and crossed and a first descent made 

 from it to the head of the twenty-mile-long Kaberi Glacier, which was 

 followed down its whole length to its tongue. MRP 



"Voyages The "Call of the Wild" leaves an unpleasant taste. It 

 ON THE raises the question : How strong a force is civilization ? 

 Yukon''* Must a new country be not only a place of hardship, but 

 also one of crime and lawlessness ? Fortunately our "story- 

 book writers" have not the last word, and I agree with Hudson Stuck 

 that Jack London has not left any "literary memorial" of the grealt 

 stampede to Alaska, and that but one side of that period has been pre- 

 sented in his much read book. Hudson Stuck's book, "Voyages on the 

 Yukon and its Tributaries," is more valuable to the reader who desires 

 to know Alaska than a cartload of extravagant and highly-colored stor- 

 ies. It is a sane, well-balanced account of travel in the interior of Alas- 

 ka. Climatic, topographic and sociological conditions as well as histori- 

 cal notes are covered in an interesting way. In contrast with the au- 

 thor's "Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog-sled," the book deals with 

 summer travel, and this is synonymous with river travel. Part I is an 

 account of the Yukon from the upper headwaters to St. Michael and the 

 Bering Sea. Part II describes the Porcupine, the Chandalar, the Tan- 

 ana, the Koyukuk, the Innoka and the Iditarod rivers and the Changeluk 

 Slough. One must not expect a scientific and exhaustive treatise, for 

 Stuck writes in a cursory and easy style and sees more with the eye of 

 an ordinary observer than that of a scientist. For the general reader 

 interested in travel, for the business man who wishes to understand the 

 general conditions of life in and the future possibilities of Alaska, and 

 for the sociologist who is interested in primitive conditions, I heartily 

 recommend the book. ^^^^^^ j Young 



* Voyages on the Yukon and its Tributaries. By Hudson Stuck. Charles Scrib- 

 ner's Sons. Price, $4.50 net. 



