While the >literati' were drawn to Paris in the late 1920's, many adventures were drawn to Northern Canada, It was the last decade before air travel wrought irrevocable changes. Various rationales justified the adventures. Fenley Hunter's mission was to measure the huge cataract on the Nahanni River and name it after his daughter. McGahern Stewart Publishing continues its project to bring to the public interesting, well written but forgotten or hitherto unpublished northern stores.