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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.
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The name John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both American and Britain. Born in Dunbar in the east of Scotland in 1838, Muir is famed as the father of American conservation. He founded the Sierra Club and was the first person to promote the idea of national parks. In Travels in Alaska he takes a trip through last century's Alaska. He writes the way he took pictures, in clean, easy-going, enthusiastic prose, with insight, attention, care and genuine feeling. It's a lovely look into a beautiful land and its inhabitants, told in a flowing narrative that's far less rushed than contemporary travel tales. --Acton Lane
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"Probably no other man in this country has his enthusiasm for mountains and glaciers . . . united with so rare a literary gift."--John Burroughs
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