If there must be hunters, surely Charles Sheldon belonged to
the inner ring of initiates who not only take pride in their craft but have a fellowship with the animal world. He was a hunter-naturalist, to whose experiences and observations zoology owes a great deal. He had in addition an appreciation, which was almost fanatical, of mountains and of all that was wildest and most remote in nature. No more fitting memorial, therefore, could have been devised than this posthumous volume, The Wilderness of Denali (Scribners. 21s.), which he was preparing from his Alaskan journals at the time of his death. The editors have done their work well : the book is admirably and fully illustrated with photographs, and brief appendices summarise some of Sheldon's most interesting discoveries. The journals themselves are of absorbing interest and show once more, as in California and in Mexico, the author's exceptional gift of comradeship with the Indians. Is it too much to hope that, in gratitude to Charles Sheldon for his labours and discoveries, Denali, the Indian name, may be restored to the mountain now hideously known as McKinley ?
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