Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889-1982) was a Scottish botanist, poet, and Arctic explorer who travelled alone through Greenland and Alaska at a time when such journeys were extraordinary for anyone. How Joy Was Found represents a more imaginative and fantastical vein of her writing — a departure from the travel narratives that made her reputation, exploring allegorical or spiritual territory with the lyrical sensibility that characterises all her work.
This free EPUB brings this rare and curious work to any e-reader in a clean reformatted edition. Readers interested in the imaginative writing of women explorers and adventurers, or in the intersection of fantasy and spiritual allegory in early 20th-century British literature, will find Hutchison’s contribution here a distinctive and unexpected discovery.