Search - Travels in Alaska (Modern Library Classics)

Travels in Alaska - Modern Library Classics
Author: John Muir

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 ...  more »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.  « less

Post This Book

Login | Register

ISBN-13: 9780375760495
ISBN-10: 0375760490
Publication Date: 6/11/2002
Pages: 272
Edition: Modern Lib
Rating:

• Currently 3/5 Stars.

 1

3 stars, based on 1 rating

Publisher: Modern Library
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

• Biographies & Memoirs >> General
• History >> Americas >> United States >> General
• Literature & Fiction >> General
• Literature & Fiction >> Classics
• Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( M ) >> Muir, John
• Reference >> Writing >> Travel
• Travel >> Travel Writing
• Travel >> Reference >> Guidebooks
• Travel >> Travel Writing
• Travel >> Specialty Travel >> Ecotourism
• Travel >> United States >> Regions >> General
• Travel >> United States >> Regions >> West >> Mountain
• Travel >> United States >> Regions >> West >> Pacific
• Travel >> United States >> States >> Alaska >> General
• Travel >> North America
• Science & Math >> Biological Sciences >> Animals >> Wildlife
• Science & Math >> Nature & Ecology >> General
• Science & Math >> Nature & Ecology >> Natural History
• Outdoors & Nature >> Environment >> Conservation
• Science & Math >> Nature & Ecology >> Nature Writing & Essays
• Outdoors & Nature >> Conservation >> General
• Outdoors & Nature >> Reference