Abstract
IT need scarcely be said that Mr. E. Thompson Seton's book makes wholesome and exhilarating reading, instinct throughout with its author's sympathy and enthusiasm for wild life. The aesthetic embroidery, while enjoyably present, is kept subordinate to the sincerity and accuracy required of the true naturalist. A six months' canoe-journey was made by the author in the open season of 1907 down the Athabaska River and through the forested country of its lake and river continuations to Lakes Clinton-Golden and Aylmer of the Barren Lands, in lat. N. 64°, a distance, there and back, of some 2000 miles or so; and this is the record of it.
The Arctic Prairies: a Canoe Journey of 2000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; being the Account of a Voyage to the Region north of Aylmer Lake.
By Ernest Thompson Seton. Pp. xvi + 415. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price 12s. 6d. net.
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The Arctic Prairies: a Canoe Journey of 2000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; being the Account of a Voyage to the Region north of Aylmer Lake . Nature 89, 317 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089317a0
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