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Travels in Alaska
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"Travels in Alaska", written by John Muir, 1879 thru 1890. An great account of his adventures and explorations, and a fine legacy of his work as an environmentalist, naturalist, and writer. Also some background on Muir himself.
- Added on: Oct 22nd, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: chicago_blogger
- Listed in: Destinations History
- Tags: outdoors conservation alaska john muir
Recent Posts
An Introduction to John Muir
John Muir was born in Dunbar, Scotland, in 1838 and died in Los Angeles, California, in 1914. His family emigrated to Wisconsin in 1849 to work a series of hardscrabble farms under the direction of a religious zealot father, whose fire and brimstone...
Preface
Preface Forty years ago John Muir wrote to a friend; “I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. . . . Civilization and fever, and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me, have not dimmed my glacial eyes, and I care to live only to entice peo...
Puget Sound and British Columbia
Puget Sound and British Columbia After eleven years of study and exploration in the Sierra Nevada of California and the mountain-ranges of the Great Basin, studying in particular their glaciers, forests, and wild life, above all their ancient glacier...
Alexander Archipelago and the Home I found in Alaska
Alexander Archipelago and the Home I found in Alaska To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. No excursion that I know of may be made into any other American wilderness where so marvelous an abundance...
Wrangell Island and Alaska Summers
Wrangell Island and Alaska Summers Wrangell Island is about fourteen miles long, separated from the mainland by a narrow channel or fiord, and trending in the direction of the flow of the ancient ice-sheet. Like all its neighbors, it is densely fores...
The Stickeen River
The Stickeen River The most interesting of the short excursions we made from Fort Wrangell was the one up the Stickeen River to the head of steam navigation. From Mt. St. Elias the coast range extends in a broad, lofty chain beyond the southern bound...
