From a quick skim, looks like a pretty fascinating turn-of-the-20th-century travelogue documenting Harry De Windt's journey overland from Paris to New York. I had assumed he went north through the Arctic but no, he went east across Russia to the Bering Strait and then down through Alaska til he could get a train to New York. His stated purpose was to show the feasibility of building out the existing train tracks in Russia and the US to complete a train route connecting Paris and New York, so he traveled by train from Paris to Moscow and then to Irkutsk in Siberia, then traveled overland across the rest of Siberia, the Bering Strait, and through Alaska until he could get back on a train. The bulk of the book covers his travels between Irkutsk and the Yukon, where he was able to get back onto trains. The whole journey took from December 1901 until August 1902 (though he did have some longer stops along the way).
Harry De Windt died in 1933 so I think this makes his book (published in 1903) PD for all.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26007
Harry De Windt's Wikipedia profile has a photo of him in the classic Arctic explorer gear and pose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_de_Windt