Travels in Alaska: 1 (Modern Library Classics) - Softcover

Muir, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375760490 ISBN 13: 9780375760495

Publisher: Modern Library Inc, 2002

Synopsis

The famed American adventurer, geologist, and naturalist recounts his experiences, impressions, and discoveries during four trips to Alaska between 1879 and 1890.

About this title

About the Author

Edward Hoagland is the author of Notes from the Century Before (a Modern Library paperback) and nearly twenty other books on nature and exploration. He lives in Bennington, Vermont.

From the Back Cover

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.

From the Inside Flap

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Modern Library Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375760490
• ISBN 13: 9780375760495
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272