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ISBN: 1449573037
Author: John Muir
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 29, 2009)
Pages: 150
Category: Literary
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Travels in Alaska, by John Muir, reflects Muir's exuberance for life and almost everything he encountered . John Muir ( 1838-1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.

Travels in Alaska, by John Muir, reflects Muir's exuberance for life and almost everything he encountered in his many travels. In addition to being an ecologist and traveler. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to save the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States.

Travels in Alaska book. 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.

In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this continental laboratory of landscapes. The greatest of the tide-water glaciers appropriately commemorates his name. Upon this book of Alaska travels, all but finished before his unforeseen departure, John Muir expended the last months of his life.

John Muir was born in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland to Daniel Muir and Ann Gilrye. Muir's travels in the Northwest. In 1888 after seven years of managing the ranch his health began to suffer. He was one of eight children: Margaret, Sarah, David, Daniel, Ann and Mary (twins), and the American-born Joanna. In his autobiography, he described his boyhood pursuits, fighting (either by re-enacting romantic battles of Scottish history or just scrapping on the playground) and hunting for bird's nests (ostensibly to one-up his fellows as they compared notes on who knew where the most were located). With his wife's prompting he returned to the hills to recover his old self, climbing Mt.

Travels in Alaska and Stickeen are also Muir's books about his doings and adventures in Alaska. John Muir (1838–1914) was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States

Travels in Alaska and Stickeen are also Muir's books about his doings and adventures in Alaska. Table of Contents: Travels in Alaska. The Cruise of the Corwin. John Muir (1838–1914) was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is a prominent American conservation organization. Summary by William Frederic Bade). This is a Librivox recording.

John Muir was a naturalists who loved to go to wild places and experience the wonders of nature. Chapter One of Travels In Alaska is inspired by the beautiful scenery Muir writes in his boat in route to Puget Sound. He describes the scenery, weather, and hospitality shown to him by the individuals he met during his journey through the Alexander Archipelago to Fort Wrangell and Sitka. Also, a man named Mr. Vanderbilt offered John a room and a place at his table.

John Muir (1838–1914) ranks among America's most important and influential naturalists and nature . Travels in Alaska - John Muir.

John Muir (1838–1914) ranks among America's most important and influential naturalists and nature writers. Devoted to the preservation of wilderness areas, Muir founded the Sierra Club and was active in the establishment of Yosemite National Park. This book, one of his most popular works, will delight environmentalists and nature lovers with its exuberant observations of Alaska and its inhabitants. Travels in Alaska offers a memorable travelogue, enhanced by photographic plates from the original 1915 publication.

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Travels in Alaska by John Muir. The Scottish-American naturalist and explorer showed up in Alaska 138 years after Steller, just a dozen years after the US purchased Alaska from the cash-strapped Russians for about two pennies per acre.

John Muir (1838-1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author and advocate of preservation of the U.S. wilderness. "Every particle of rock or water or air has God by its side leading it the way it should go; The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness; In God's wildness is the hope of the world." -- John Muir, Travels in Alaska Review "The richness of his writing roots deeper into the terrain than any other wilderness writer known to me." -- David Craig, Los Angeles Times Book Review

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Freaky Hook

Most people associate the great conservationist John Muir with the Sierra Nevada and other mountains in California. However, from his early travels from Kentucky to Florida to this final book published in his lifetime, "Travels in Alaska," it's clear his interest extended far beyond California. He was particularly fascinated with southeast Alaska because he saw some of the same scouring in the mountains there as he had found in Yosemite, and he traveled through much of Alaska's Inside Passage to support his theory that one of the key shaping elements in Yosemite was the glaciers that had covered much of the future national park during the Ice Ages. In "Travels in Alaska," Muir's intense curiosity and keen observational skills as a self-taught naturalist equally impressed his Anglo-American companions and native Alaskans who were the guides in his explorations there. Muir's respect for the tribal members is strongly evident in the book and his interest in their family lives and culture comes through in his observations. He was especially impressed with the love parents had for their children, and how he never saw them speak harshly to them or strike them. Despite some descriptive excesses common to writing of his time that can seem slightly quaint to modern readers, Muir's reverence for the land and all its creatures stemming from his Christian faith and his humility before the Earth's sublime natural wonders won me over as they have every time I read his works. His positive outlook, indefatigable pursuit of knowledge in every place he went to, and belief in the power of all creation to lift us and make us better human beings are all in this final book he worked on himself before his death

Manris

Great book on adventures in the Arctic. If you like this book you will also want to read the following 99 cent books on Arctic adventures:
1 A Winter Circuit of Our Arctic Coast: A Narrative of a Journey with Dog-sleds Around the Entire Arctic Coast of Alaska (1920)
2 Hunters of the Great North (1922) (Interactive Table of Contents)
3 An Eskimo Village (1920)
4 My Arctic Journal: A Year Among Ice-fields and Eskimos (1894)
5 A Year with a Whaler (1919)
6 By Eskimo Dog-sled and Kayak (1919)
7 Forty-two Years Amongst the Indians and Eskimo: Pictures from the Life of the Right Reverend John Horden, First Bishop of Moosonee (1893) (Active Table of Contents)
8 Journey from Great Bear Lake to Wollaston Land and Recent Explorations along the South and East Coast of Victoria Land (1852)
9 Robert Peary's Short Narrative of His "GREAT WHITE JOURNEY" across Greenland (1894)

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Descriptions of the stunning scenery of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, and John Muir's reaction of it, are revealed in these newly published pages from his journals. This book is for anyone who loves nature and the descriptive writings of John Muir. Muir's travel to this area came toward the end of a life spent in the presence of natural beauty, yet he was still able to appreciate what he saw. This book adds even more to his stature as America's premier naturalist.

GoodLike

In preparation to my monthlong visit to Alaska, I read this book by John Muir! What a fascinating and tenacious manhe was! He withstood many hardships.....at least they would be hardships to us but Muir seemed to take all kinds of weather in stride and love it in a way that catches your breath! His descriptions are poetic. Not only is his writing beautiful, but one gets a sense that he is there in the wilderness with him. His way of speaking and vocabulary are different from modern day vernacular, but it gives a real life glimpse into the world of a great explorer and glaceologist! My visit to Alaska will be greatly enhanced after reading this book! I cant wait to leave next week!

Zugar

The beauty of this wonderful reprinting is how it shows John Muir as a person, how it helps us to understand the dynamic and overwhelming beauty of Alaska, and the changes in the people of Alaska. Muir's complete, tireless, and joyful commitment to nature comes through on every page. The book unintentionally provides an excellent portrait of the kind of inexhaustible devotion it takes to change the world as did Muir. The book also provides a stunning portrait of Alaska in the latter part of the 19th Century and allows one to compare the Alaska of those days with Alaska of earlier times and of today. The biggest changes are in the glaciers and in the people. The glaciers have receded dramatically as a natural part of their centuries' long retreat. It is interesting to compare what Muir saw with the experience of Vancouver almost exactly 100 years earlier (ca. 1793). Vancouver could hardly enter Glacier Bay. Muir could enter quite some distance, but the glaciers were still the dominant features. Today, the glaciers have largely receded into deep valleys. Muir encountered people in Alaska living largely as they had for centuries. They were hunters and fishermen and lived in small groups along the shore line. As Jonathan Raban points out in the intricately woven fabric of his sublime book "Passage to Juneau," the people of southeast Alaska considered the sea to be the real environment of their lives while the land was considered dangerous and unknowable. They lived along the shore and knew how to live off and with the sea year round. The lives of the Alaskan people are very different today but greatly influenced by the past. Raban often characterizes Muir's writing as overblown and florid. However, it is a portrait of a man, a maritime land and a people. To do justice to those three, the book had to be what it is - an astonishingly colorful and detailed portrait in words.