North to the Rime-Ringed Sun: An Alaskan Journey.

HUTCHISON, Isobel Wylie.

Published by New York: Hillman-Curl Inc., 1937

About this Item

First US edition of Hutchinson's account of her "most spectacular" journey. Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889-1982) was sent on her 1933-34 Alaska-Canadian solo expedition to collect botanical specimens and reached as far north as Herschel Island. This work includes the appendices listing the "curios acquired for the Royal Scottish Museum" and "plants collected at Seward, and on Kodiak, the Pribilof and Aleutian Islands for the British Museum". "She took a cargo vessel from Manchester to Vancouver, then a mixture of river boat, train and four seater areoplane up to Nome, just below the Arctic Circle: she cadged lifts from a tiny 10-ton trading vessel and a local motorboat to Sandspit Island, north of Point Barrow, and then, because the ice had closed in early that year, joined a huskey team to her destination of Herschel Island, camping the while in perhaps 62 degree of frost. On the way home - just for fun - she spent two weeks at a reindeer camp in the Mackenzie Delta" (Robinson). This work was first published in Britain in 1934 under the title North to the Rime-Ringed Sun: Being the Record of an Alaskan-Canadian Journey made in 1933-34. Robinson, Wayward Women, pp. 135-136. Arctic bibliography 7597. Octavo. Colour frontispiece from a watercolour by the author, 3 colour plates, 16 half-tone plates, colour folding map. Original blueish green cloth, spine and front cover lettered and ruled in dark blue on pale yellow panels. With pictorial dust jacket, unattributed as such but with artwork by the author. Cloth rubbed, spine slightly cocked and sunned, ends and corners a little frayed, edges foxed; jacket unclipped, soiled and toned, chipped at foot and head, splits in spine repaired with archival tape on verso: a very good copy in good only jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: North to the Rime-Ringed Sun: An Alaskan Journey.
• Publisher: New York: Hillman-Curl Inc., 1937
• Edition: 1st Edition