THE ALASKA ACCOUNT of John Muir: Travels in Alaska, The Cruise of the Corwin, Stickeen & Alaska Days with John Muir (Illustrated)
Alaskan Wilderness and WonderBy John Muir, S. Hall Young
Length21h 10m
About this audiobook
This illustrated compendium gathers wilderness narrative, travel writing, expedition record, memoir, and animal story into a richly textured account of Alaska's coasts, glaciers, islands, and Indigenous homelands. Its central concerns are ecological wonder, spiritual attentiveness, scientific observation, and the moral drama of travel in a region undergoing intensified colonial and commercial contact. The selections range from lyrical descriptions of ice and forest to shipboard chronicles, perilous journeys, and the memorable tale of a small dog's ordeal, demonstrating how adventure writing can also become environmental reflection. John Muir's writings emerge from the late nineteenth-century culture of natural history, exploration, and conservation, while S. Hall Young's recollections supply a complementary perspective shaped by missionary life and sustained acquaintance with Alaska. Together, these voices document a formative period in American ideas about wilderness, preservation, and the northern frontier. Their differing experiences—one grounded in naturalist observation and another in lived regional memory—complicate any single vision of Alaska, even as the volume reflects the assumptions and aspirations of its historical moment. Recommended for readers of environmental literature, Arctic and Pacific Northwest history, travel writing, and conservation thought, this volume offers an exceptional opportunity to compare genres and perspectives in one setting. Its illustrations and varied texts invite close attention to landscape, encounter, and narrative form, fostering a rewarding dialogue between scientific curiosity, personal adventure, and cultural history.
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GenreTravel, Literary Classics
Length21 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 28, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Rules of the Game (Annotated)
2THE ALASKA ACCOUNT of John Muir: Travels in Alaska, The Cruise of the Corwin, Stickeen & Alaska Days with John Muir (Illustrated)
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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