Alaska Days with John Muir
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- Under 100
- First published
- 1915
- Pages
- 56
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John Muir's arrival by steamboat at Fort Wrangell in 1879 starts a friendship that draws Samuel Hall Young into the mountains of southeastern Alaska. Young recalls following the naturalist on a climb above Glenora, pushing through brush and dwarf evergreens to reach pastures filled with flowers. Muir's delight in each plant becomes a lesson in observation, while Young gives the landscape a spiritual meaning through his own religious outlook.
Canoe voyages bring a different set of challenges: shifting icebergs, autumn rain and a maze of glacier crevasses. Young describes Muir returning to camp full of enthusiasm for the shapes and colors he has seen inside the ice. Elsewhere, a guide's concern for the party's safety forces them to turn back from a bay Muir wants to explore. This travel memoir offers readers a close view of an adventurous friendship, combining natural history with the practical decisions that govern travel through unfamiliar waters.
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Book facts
- Author
- Samuel Hall Young
- First published
- 1915
- Reading time
- About 2 hours
- Pages
- 56
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Travel Memoir
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online