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Show Woman Pens Book on Arctic Exploration From N. Y. Home' NEW YORK. Miss Jeannette Mirsky, an attractive anthropologist who has never been north of Buffalo, Buf-falo, has written a book on polar exploration that the critics hail as the best thing done on the Arctic. "No, I never steered a kayak or yelled 'mush' to a husky," Miss Mirsky Mir-sky confessed. "But I read the private journals of all the great explorers ex-plorers and that made me feel familiar fa-miliar with every inch of the Arctic wastelands." Her typewriter explorations began, be-gan, she said, back in 1934 when she was reading a daily newspaper. A habitual obituary reader, she noticed that a famous Arctic explorer ex-plorer had died, and went to the library for a further account of his life. The result was "To the Arctic," which Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefans-son Stefans-son has called "the best thing ever done," on northern exploration. The petite blonde spent eight hours a day for four years, she said, reading source material for the book. |