Travels in Alaska : Modern Library Classics - John Muir

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Travels in Alaska

By: John Muir

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Paperback | 11 June 2002 | Edition Number 1

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In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of Alaska, irresistibly drawn to its awe-inspiring glaciers and its wild menagerie of bears, bald eagles, wolves, and whales. Half-poet and half-geologist, he recorded his experiences and reflections in Travels in Alaska, a work he was in the process of completing at the time of his death in 1914. As Edward Hoagland writes in his Introduction, "A century and a quarter later, we are reading [Muir's] account because there in the glorious fiords . . . he is at our elbow, nudging us along, prompting us to understand that heaven is on earth--is the Earth--and rapture is the sensible response wherever a clear line of sight remains."

This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes photographs from the original 1915 edition.

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"Probably no other man in this country has his enthusiasm for mountains and glaciers . . . united with so rare a literary gift."--John Burroughs

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Biographical Note
Illustrations
Introduction
The Trip of 1879
Puget Sound and British Columbia	p. 3
Alexander Archipelago and the Home I Found in Alaska	p. 10
Wrangell Island and Alaska Summers	p. 21
The Stickeen River	p. 35
A Cruise in the Cassiar	p. 44
The Cassiar Trail	p. 60
Glenora Peak	p. 68
Exploration of the Stickeen Glaciers	p. 75
A Canoe Voyage to Northward	p. 87
The Discovery of Glacier Bay	p. 106
The Country of the Chilcats	p. 122
The Return to Fort Wrangell	p. 134
Alaska Indians	p. 148
The Trip of 1880
Sum Dum Bay	p. 157
From Taku River to Taylor Bay	p. 177
Glacier Bay	p. 194
The Trip of 1890
In Camp at Glacier Gay	p. 205
My Sled-Trip on the Muir Glacier	p. 221
Auroras	p. 234
Glossary of Words in the Chinook Jargon	p. 240
Index	p. 241
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