Look to the wilderness

by W. Douglas Burden

W. Douglas Burden has an established
reputation among American naturalists. As
a boy he learned his woods lore from
famous guides in the Adirondacks and in
Canada. His father encouraged him to explore
on his own and later to undertake far
and hazardous hunting explorations in
Alaska, in Indochina, in Mongolia, in the
islands of the Pacific, and in the jungles
of Latin America. Wilderness has always
called him, and it has been his privilege to
explore some of the wildest parts of the
world. Mr. Burden writes as he camps, with
an appreciation of hardihood; he is fearless
and sensitive, and awed by the majesty and
power of nature. In LOOK TO THE WILDERNESS,
he tells of his education and of his
adventures in forests, on glaciers, on mountain
ranges and in remote tropical jungles.
Into the forests of our own northern wilderness
we travel with Burden and such
guides as the great Indian hunter Archie
Miller and the inarticulate trapper Henry
Lucas. With them, we hear at night the
most eerie and bloodcurdling sound of the
North American continent, the hunting call
of timber wolves on the trail; we feel the
terror that comes only with the sudden
knowledge of wolves coming close when
you are alone ; we stand at the knife-edge of
two worlds, the world of lifeless glacial ice
and the warm-blooded world of mammals;
we learn that the north does not permit the
survival of the unfit and that it is a desperate
thing to love wild animals and to kill them. <-
In 1922, Burden and Mason Sears, both
just out of college, seek adventure in the
Far East and go to Indochina to collect for
the Museum of Natural History. They take



us deep into tiger country on a hunt \\ith
F. J. Defosse, then the .g..., reat white hunter
of Indochina, with ninety-eight elephant
and forty-five tiger notches on his gun.
From there, we cross the Himalayas into
" country as rough as any that exists. to hunt.

JACKET ILLUSTRATION BY HENRY KANE

251 pages, Hardcover