Excerpt from An Arctic Province: Alaska and the Seal Islands Scores of weighty volumes, hundreds of pamphlets and mag azine articles, and a thousand newspaper letters, have been devoted to the subject of Alaskan life, scenery, and value. In contempla tion of this, viewed from the author's standpoint of extended per sonal experience, he announces his determination to divest him self of all individuality in the following chapters, to portray in word, and by brush and pencil, the life and country of Alaska as it is, so ...
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Excerpt from An Arctic Province: Alaska and the Seal Islands Scores of weighty volumes, hundreds of pamphlets and mag azine articles, and a thousand newspaper letters, have been devoted to the subject of Alaskan life, scenery, and value. In contempla tion of this, viewed from the author's standpoint of extended per sonal experience, he announces his determination to divest him self of all individuality in the following chapters, to portray in word, and by brush and pencil, the life and country of Alaska as it is, so clearly and so truthfully, that the reader may draw his or her own inference, just as though he or she stood upon the ground itself. How differently a number of us are impressed in the viewing of any one subject, by which observation we utterly fail to agree as to its. Character and worth! This variance is handsomely illustrated by the diverse opinion of Alaskan travellers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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