Trails and Tramps in Alaska and Newfoundland

The steamer pushes north into waters that no longer exist on modern charts. This is the Alaska of 1910, a place where wolves still howl unbroken across tundra and grizzlies rule the salmon streams. William S. Thomas documents not merely his hunting expeditions but an entire way of being that was already vanishing when he set pen to paper. From the fog-shrouded coast of Ketchikan to the remote interior of Newfoundland, he tracks big game across landscapes so vivid you can taste the salt air and feel the crisp bite of winter wind. But the real quarry here is something harder to name: the romance of a frontier, the strange beauty of solitude, the profound loneliness of spaces too vast for human presence. A young man bids farewell at the dock, heading into a North that no longer exists. That ache, that longing for a world before roads and GPS, pulses through every page.