Travels in Alaska
- Author: Muir, John
- Publisher: Random House (2002)
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- Literary Category: General Interest
- Pages: 272
- Cover Type: S - Softcover
- Dimensions: 5.250" x 8.000" x 0.675"
- Weight: 7.1oz
- ISBN-10: 0-375-76049-0
- ISBN-13: 978-0-375-76049-5
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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.