Alaska Days with John Muir: 4 Books in One Volume
Four Classic Accounts of Glaciers, Wilderness Travel, Faith, and Environmental WonderBy John Muir, S. Hall Young
Length21h 8m
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Alaska Days with John Muir: 4 Books in One Volume gathers four complementary accounts of the Alaskan frontier, joining natural history, travel narrative, memoir, spiritual reflection, and adventure writing. Across glaciers, coastal waters, forests, and Indigenous homelands, the volume records a landscape understood as both scientifically compelling and morally exhilarating. Vivid passages of maritime travel, close observation of weather and wildlife, and the memorable ordeal of a small dog on a glacier give the collection an unusual range, balancing lyrical wonder with practical experience. The volume brings together John Muir's foundational environmental prose and S. Hall Young's recollections of journeys shared with Muir. Muir's work belongs to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century tradition of American nature writing and conservation advocacy, while Young's perspective, shaped by missionary life and frontier travel, supplies a valuable testimonial and cultural frame. Their converging narratives illuminate the era's expanding scientific interest in Alaska, its colonial pressures, and the emergence of wilderness as a central American ideal. Recommended for readers of environmental literature, Alaskan history, and travel writing, this omnibus offers an especially rich encounter with multiple modes of witnessing place. Its four texts invite comparison between observation, memory, devotion, and advocacy, making the collection both an engaging read and a rewarding resource for understanding how Alaska entered the literary imagination.
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GenreScience and Nature, Literary Classics
Length21 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Mountains of California (With Original Drawings & Photographs) (Annotated)
2Alaska Days with John Muir: 4 Books in One Volume
3TRAVELS IN ALASKA
4Preface
5Part I The Trip of 1879
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6Chapter I. Puget Sound and British Columbia
7Chapter II. Alexander Archipelago and the Home I found in Alaska
8Chapter III. Wrangell Island and Alaska Summers
9Chapter IV. The Stickeen River
10Chapter V. A Cruise in the Cassiar
11Chapter VI. The Cassiar Trail
12Chapter VII. Glenora Peak
13Chapter VIII. Exploration of the Stickeen Glaciers
14Chapter IX. A Canoe Voyage to Northward
15Chapter X. The Discovery of Glacier Bay
16Chapter XI. The Country of the Chilcats
17Chapter XII. The Return to Fort Wrangell
18Chapter XIII. Alaska Indians
19Part II The Trip of 1880
20Chapter XIV. Sum Dum Bay
21Chapter XV. From Taku River to Taylor Bay
22Chapter XVI. Glacier Bay
23Part III The Trip of 1890
24Chapter XVII. In Camp at Glacier Bay
25Chapter XVIII. My Sled-Trip on the Muir Glacier
26Chapter XIX. Auroras
27Glossary of Words in the Chinook Jargon
28THE CRUISE OF THE CORWIN
29Introduction
30Chapter I. Unalaska and the Aleuts
31Chapter II. Among the Islands of Bering Sea
32Chapter III. Siberian Adventures
33Chapter IV. In Peril from the Pack
34Chapter V. A Chukchi Orator
35Chapter VI. Eskimos and Walrus
36Chapter VII. At Plover Bay and St. Michael
37Chapter VIII. Return of the Search Party
38Chapter IX. Villages of the Dead
39Chapter X. Glimpses of Alaskan Tundra
40Chapter XI. Caribou and a Native Fair
41Chapter XII. Zigzags among the Polar Pack
42Chapter XIII. First Ascent of Herald Island
43Chapter XIV. Approaching a Myserious Land
44Chapter XV. The Land of the White Bear
45Chapter XVI. Tragedies of the Whaling Fleet
46Chapter XVII. Meeting the Point Barrow Expedition
47Chapter XVIII. A Siberian Reindeer Herd
48Chapter XIX. Turned Back by Storms and Ice
49Chapter XX. Homeward Bound
50Appendix I. The Glaciation of the Arctic and Subarctic Regions Visited during the Cruise
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