True North: Exploring the Great Wilderness by Bush Plane.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

The Humanist | November 1, 2002| | Copyright

by George Erickson (Guilford, CT: See The Lyons Press, 2002); 320 pp; $24.95 hardcover.

True North is a pro-science and pro-environment bestseller written by George Erickson who is a photographer, bush pilot, and former American Humanist Association vice-president. Erickson takes readers to the lands of Jack London and Robert Service where he mingles with caribou, musk oxen, and polar bears. He exposes the damage done when native beliefs were swept away by the often reprehensible practices of Catholic and Anglican missionaries.

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