Free ebook: A Woman who went to Alaska (1902)
A Woman who went to Alaska, by May Kellogg Sullivan (1902) is available for free in a bunch of different formats from Manybooks. I haven't read it, but it looks interesting. (If it's half as good as An Island to Oneself I'll be happy.)
LinkThis unpretentious little book is the outcome of my own experiences and adventures in Alaska. Two trips, covering a period of eighteen months and a distance of over twelve thousand miles were made practically alone. In answer to the oft-repeated question of why I went to Alaska I can only give the same reply that so many others give: I wanted to go in search of my fortune which had been successfully eluding my grasp for a good many years.
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Uh. Why would you want to write a book about going to Alaska? If she wrote one book for 18 months, I should be able to write, uh, 12 books.
Alaska isn't some weird place, it's a fuckin state. Come on.
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Another wonderful Alaska book is Hudson Stuck's "10'000 Miles With A Dog Sled." English born Stuck was appointed Episcopal Archbishop for the Alaska territory at the end of the 19th century, a role he took very seriously. For a product of blue-blood Victorian England his attitudes to the native peoples were surprisingly enlightened (for example, he rages against the corrupting influence of Russian fur traders).
Tough as any intrepid Victorian explorer his stiff upper lip attitude to the dangers & deprivations of back country life make for amusing reading (apparently he dressed for dinner on the trail).
Why wouldn't you want to write a book about Alaska. It wasn't a state in 1902 when Sullivan wrote it. I have lived there and it is unique.