The Washington poet and novelist Ella Higginson writes of the Alaska she travelled by steamer in the early 1900s: the Inside Passage, Sitka and its Russian past, glaciers and fjords, the gold towns and the dances held at Valdez on steamer night. She retells the history from Bering’s voyages to the American purchase and writes with affection of the Aleuts and the other native peoples.
An enthusiastic, richly descriptive portrait of Alaska before the motor age. Download the free EPUB.