A Republic of Rivers: Three Centuries of Nature Writing from Alaska and the Yukon - Paperbackby John A. Murray (Editor) "The spell of Alaska," Ella Higginson wrote in 1908, "falls upon every lover of beauty who has voyaged along those far northern snow pearled shores or who has drifted down the mighty rivers of the interior which flow, bell toned and lonely, to the sea. No writer has ever described Alaska; no one writer ever will; but each must do his share, according to the spell that the country casts upon him." In A Republic of Rivers,