SOURCE: "From Yukon to Ungava," in The Saturday Review, Vol. XXXIX, No. 10, March 10, 1956, p. 20.

In the following review, Hutchison praises The Mysterious North as an engaging work of nonfiction.

As a skilled professional reporter and a reckless amateur of exploration Pierre Berton has written in The Mysterious North a book with an unusual, perhaps a unique, virtue in its field: it sees the Canadian North whole. Many other books have examined parts of it in greater detail. Few if any, can have surveyed it in such a wide sweep and engaging style.

No such survey would have been possible in a single life-time before the day of the airplane. Mr. Berton has used automobiles, trains, horses, dogsleds, and his own legs on various side journeys, but for the most part he has flown, dropping down at any place which seemed to promise interesting copy. The result is a...