The Lure of Alaska Author:Harry A. Franck This book is like coming across a dusty box in the attic containing a hundred or so letters and postcards and discovering they are long forgotten correspondence from a great-uncle describing his everyday adventures while traveling through Alaska shortly before WW II. by David Ciaffardini — Harry A. Franck was one of 20th Century America's most pr... more »olific gentlemen travel writers. This account of his survey of Alaska in the 1930s should be considered a must-have for anyone wanting a good glimpse of what the land and people of Alaska were like in that era, and what it was like to visit there, delivered in an easy-going, folksy story telling style, complete with about 100 of the author's black and white photographs.
Franck, although not to be confused with a hardcore outdoors adventure traveler, traveled the length and breadth of Alaska by boat, auto, foot, airplane and railroad, meeting the natives and newer settlers, relating some of the history along with the current status of a land that, even more so than now, was considered an exotic place, a land of eccentrics and eccentricities.« less