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enlivened by many personal touches and humorous side-lights. Haworth's ac- 

 count of Amundsen's making the famous Northwest Passage is of special in- 

 terest to those of us who have seen the sturdy little "Gjoa" resting quietly at 

 the beach entrance to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Her battered 

 wooden frame gives clear evidence of the difficulties of that eventful Arctic 

 voyage and supplies an added zest to Haworth's full and detailed account of 

 the modest Norwegian's success in an undertaking that explorers had dreamed 

 of for three centuries. F. E. Atkinson 



