Travels in Alaska

John Muir, Edward Hoagland

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Modern Library
15 June 2002

Travel & holiday; Classic travel writing

Series: Modern Library Classics

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.

By: John Muir
Introduction by: Edward Hoagland
Imprint: Modern Library
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 221g
ISBN: 9780375760495
ISBN 10: 0375760490
Series: Modern Library Classics
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 15 June 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Travels in Alaska

Probably no other man in this country has his enthusiasm for mountains and glaciers . . . united with so rare a literary gift. John Burroughs Probably no other man in this country has his enthusiasm for mountains and glaciers . . . united with so rare a literary gift. --John Burroughs