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Robert Carver North (1914-2002) http://tinyurl.com/RCNorth

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Letterman's Sweater

From Bob North with Dog Team and Indians, 1929.

Reader: Kevin Hearle

Good explorers know that when you travel the north by dog team, it's best to be prepared. And if you're from sunny California, you can start by packing a good sweater.

Robert Carver North was an influential Stanford political scientist. But before he was an academic, he was a boy adventurer, touring Canada by dog sled while accompanied by a father who harbored a quite different collegiate allegiance.

In the morning we left. . . . Father rode in the carriole while I ran ahead. After crossing a point of land we came to the Nelson River with Hudson Bay in the near distance.

Now we got out our banners for the last time and father tied over and in front of his parka the very sweater, kept over thirty years, though nearly lost in our fire, that he wore in his undergraduate athletics. The letter on it he thinks is probably the first Big C ever granted at the University of California. Anyway, he prizes it a lot.

Bob North with Dog Team and Indians was published in 1929, when Robert Carver North was only 15. It was one of three youthful adventure books North wrote when a teenager.