Annotations on Alaska

These are annotations for the sixteenth chapter of the book Impossible Histories. I’m not saying you need to keep a copy of IH open next to you as you read, but it might make some things clearer? I should probably mention that you can buy the book just about anywhere, including here, or you can nag your local library about acquiring a copy.

p. 306
•epigraph: The epigraph for this chapter would have been:

…through Behring Straits, and into the remotest secret drawers and lockers of the world.
§Melvil...