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The man who first mapped Alaska's North Slope, and who rubbed shoulders with Arctic legends Roald Amundsen and Vilhjalmar Stefansson, finally gets noticed. Unfortunately the resultant book never brings him to life.

"The most extensive records of this and his subsequent trips are Leffingwell’s journals, and he was quite spartan in his language, something readers discover from the excerpts Collins includes. With little else to go on, she’s left to provide a daily account of where Leffingwell went and what he saw, temperatures, weather conditions, who he interacted with, perhaps what he ate, and not much more."

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