The Cruise of the Northern Light

by Borden, John; Stange, Mary Zeiss; LETTS DE ESPIL, COURTNEY

• ISBN13: 9780811731409
• ISBN10: 0811731405
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Stackpole Books

Summary

Breaking the role of Chicago socialite as wife of John Borden, heir to the Borden's Condensed Milk fortune, Courtney Borden accompanied her husband on hunts and became adept at shooting and fishing. The couple, along with a small party, took a five-month voyage to hunt Alaskan brown bear, walrus, and polar bear trophies, some of which would become specimens for Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. Courtney Borden recorded the events of the trip, and this book is her account of the Arctic adventure, from hunting walrus from a kayak to visits to Native settlements and frontier communities in Alaska.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	xvii
I THE NORTHERN LIGHT SETS SAIL	1	(14)
II THROUGH INLAND WATERS	15	(20)
III A TEMPESTUOUS GULF	35	(10)
IV HUNTING THE LARGEST CARNIVOROUS ANIMAL ON EARTH	45	(22)
V "THERE'S A BEAR-GEE, LOOK."	67	(16)
VI THE PATHETIC REMNANT OF A STRONG RACE	83	(10)
VII ISLANDS IN BERING SEA	93	(22)
VIII WE RECEIVE AN S.O.S	115	(16)
IX THROUGH BERING STRAIT	131	(21)
X "'THE TIME HAS COME' THE WALRUS SAID-"	152	(27)
XI "TIKERAQ"-AN ARCTIC VILLAGE	179	(13)
XII DODGING THE POLAR ICE PACK	192	(33)
XIII WRANGEL ISLAND AND POLAR BEARS	225	(37)
XIV THE CHUKCHEES	262	(22)
XV HOMEWARD BOUND	284	(21)
APPENDIX	305