The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, with 9 Maps and 233 Illustrations

xv, 340, [1] pp. Large fold-out map of Katmai National Monument follows text. Arctic Bibliography 6208: "The author led four of the Katmai Expeditions of the National Geographic Society, 1915-1919. He gives here a full account of the Katmai eruption as experienced at Kodiak and other localities; its effect on the climate and vegetation; a chapter on the volcanoes of Alaska; narratives of the expeditions of 1915, '16, '17, and '19, with full descriptions of devastation of Katmai Valley, the Katmai flood, the canyons and valleys, craters and mountains, surface features of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, and the conditions during and after the eruption, as evidenced there. Closes with a description of the vegetation, game, and geography of the surrounding country and with suggestions for harbors and roads to make the area accessible as a national park."