| Title | : | Travels in Alaska |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | John Muir & Edward Hoagland |
| Release | : | 2002-06-11 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | U.S. History, Books, History, Science & Nature, Nature |
| Size | : | 4160031 |
| 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. |
