Books: Koyukuk

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ARCTIC VILLAGE—Robert Marshall— Smith & Haas ($3). When young Plant Physiologist Robert Marshall decided to spend a summer in Alaska he looked at the map. found there were two large uncharted sections. He chose the Upper Koyukuk because it was farther north, inside the Arctic Circle. He liked it so much that a year later he went back there to spend over a year. Arctic Village, May choice of the Literary Guild, is the fascinatingly factual record of his visit. Like Robert Lynd's famed Middletown (statistical study of Muncie. Ind.). Arctic Village's...

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