Travels in Alaska
- Author John Muir
- Narrator Noah Waterman
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Run Time 7 hours and 40 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre History of the Americas, Local history, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Travel and holiday, Travel guides: adventure holidays, Travel writing.
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What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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“The book abounds in passages of wonderful beauty…In this as in all his other books two qualities stand out pre-eminently—the sincerity of his enthusiasm, the intensity of his religious faith.
Sierra Club -
“While all of Muir’s books are charming, this one presents peculiar features of interest in addition to the pleasing literary style and scientific accuracy that characterize the others…his writings [are] unsurpassed as records of the history of nature.”
Mississippi Valley Historical Review -
“Take a trip to last century’s Alaska through Muir’s clean, easy-going, enthusiastic prose. He wrote the way he took pictures, with insight, attention, care, and genuine feeling. It’s a lovely look into a beautiful land and its inhabitants the way it used to be, told in a flowing narrative that is far less rushed than contemporary travel tales.”
Amazon.com, editorial review -
“Probably no other man in this country has his enthusiasm for mountains and glaciers…united with so rare a literary gift.”
John Burroughs, American naturalist and essayist -
“Men like Muir continue for us the spiritual reclamation of North America. At their keenest, they evoke for us something of the freshness of an hour and a day when, before the intervention of culture, men saw the world for the first time as something wonderful and new.”
John Haines
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