By Olaus J. Murie,Donald O. Murie
What Murie skilled on those travels used to be recorded within the sketchbooks and magazine that he regularly carried with him. with his interesting choice of pictures, they shape the root for a story that mixes a scientist’s eye for element and a naturalist’s reverence for wilderness.
Whether dogsledding, capturing rapids in a canoe, or dancing with Aleut Eskimos, Murie had a keenness for discovery and conservation that enlivens each web page of trips TO THE some distance NORTH.
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