The Yukon

Patricia Morley is professor emerita of English and Canadian Studies at
Concordia University and an avid outdoor recreationist. She is also the
author of The Mountain Is Moving: Japanese Women’s Lives, Kurlek, and
Margaret Laurence: The Long Journey Hom

With its awesome mountain peaks and valleys, swift rivers, and
meadowlands ablaze with wildflowers, the Yukon is one of the most
spectacular northern regions in the world. Adventure photojournalists
Pat and Baiba Morrow have combined photography with short companion
texts to celebrate the Yukon’s 100th anniversary as a Canadian
territory. Their text includes a brief history of the region, from the
stewardship of the First Nations people, to the 1896 Klondike gold rush,
to its current territorial status. Accompanying the fine color
photography are paragraph-length captions that afford a solid sense of
the region, its wildlife, and its human inhabitants. A full-page map,
together with captions documenting the courses of the rivers, provides a
brief geography.

The vistas range from stunning panoramas to intimate close-ups of
wildflowers beside the Dempster Highway. From the rosy-orange and purple
glory of sunrise over Tombstone Range to the symphony of greys in a
storm-sky over Little Salmon Lake, the colors of this land have to be
seen to be believed.