North to the Rime-Ringed Sun, Being the Record of an Alaskan-Canadian Journey Made in 1933-34
London and Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1934.
First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. viii, 232 pp, with 20 plates, some colored. Spine cocked, minor foxing; else clean and sound, in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. A botanist, Hutchison was commissioned by Kew Gardens and the British Museum to collect specimens in the Arctic. Robinson (p. 136) calls this book "the most spectacular" of her adventures: "she took a cargo vessel from Manchester to Vancouver, then a mixture of river boat, train, and four-seater airplane up to Nome; she cadged lifts from a tiny 10-ton trading vessel and a local motor boat to Sandspit Island, north of Point Barrow, and then joined a husky team to her destination of Herschel Island...On the way home--just for fun--she spent two weeks at a reindeer camp in the Mackenzie Delta." An appendix includes an annotated list of plants collected. Arctic Bib. 7598.
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