New York, 1970, 1st edition. 195 pp, ills. A 300 mile walk across the Alaskan Brooks Range in 1967. Three young men set out on foot in 1967 hiking across the length of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge to the Dew Line station on Barter Island for a journey that was "a lesson in solitude". They left no trace of their passage on the landscape but now in this same Arctic country oil rigs, cast-off oil rums, towers & the muddy tracks of trucks mark the beginnings of the largest exploitation of a natural resource in this century. Soon this ancient wilderness will be gone. This book is a testament to the land as it was in a quieter time. DJ, Near Fine.
