Travels in Alaska

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.

• Author
• John Muir

• Format
• library binding

• Pages
• 344

• Publisher
• Reprint Services Corp

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780781201544

• Settings
• Alaska

• Genres
• travel, nature, memoir, environment, adventure, history, classics, outdoors, biography

• Release date
• 1915