''Arctic Village'' (1933) is a book written by
Robert Marshall, an American forester, writer, and wilderness activist (1901-1939), about the
Koyukuk River
The Koyukuk River (; ''Ooghekuhno' '' in Koyukon, ''Kuuyukaq'' or ''Tagraġvik'' in Iñupiaq) is a tributary of the Yukon River, in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the last major tributary entering the Yukon before the larger river empties into ...
area and the town of
Wiseman. He lived there for 15 months starting in 1930 while conducting research on tree growth near the Arctic Divide. Marshall referred to the people of the frontier village as "...the happiest civilization of which I have knowledge."
References
Books about Alaska
Culture of the Arctic
Books about the Arctic
American travel books
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