copyright 1940; wonderfully illustrated by Frederick Machetanz - both b/w and vivid color; Charles Scribner's Sons publishers, New York; hardbound; very good condition with unmarked pages and minimal ageing; slight bumps to boards; no dust jacket.
 
CONTENTS -
Mayokok Arrives;
A Reindeer Roundup;
The Celebration;
The Visitors Leave;
Start Mushing;
Salalook;
Arctic Trails;
End of the Trail;
A Northern Winter;
Arctic Whale Hunt;
Adrift on the Ice;
Nanook.
 
 
author -
Fred Machetanz (February 20, 1908 – October 6, 2002) was an Alaskan painter and illustrator who specialized in depictions of Alaskan scenes, people and wildlife. He first came to the territory in 1935, when he traveled to Unalakleet to visit his uncle, Charles Traeger, who ran a trading post there and spent 2 years developing a portfolio of Alaskan scenes. After leaving Alaska, he spent some time as an illustrator in New York, but longed to return to Alaska. He returned in 1942 after volunteering with the U.S. Navy and requesting a posting to the Aleutian Islands during World War II. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and was responsible for intelligence for the North Pacific Command. After the war, he trained for a short time at the Art Students League in New York, studying lithography under Will Barnet, and then returned to Unalakleet in 1946.