Travels in Alaska (Modern Library Classics)

Muir, John

ISBN 10: 0375760490 / ISBN 13: 9780375760495

Editore: Modern Library, 2002

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Codice articolo 00082948094

Riassunto:

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. As Edward Hoagland writes in his Introduction, “A century and a quarter later, we are reading [Muir’s] account because there in the glorious fiords . . . he is at our elbow, nudging us along, prompting us to understand that heaven is on earth—is the Earth—and rapture is the sensible response wherever a clear line of sight remains.”

This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes photographs from the original 1915 edition.

Informazioni sull?autore: Edward Hoagland is the author of Notes from the Century Before (a Modern Library paperback) and nearly twenty other books on nature and exploration. He lives in Bennington, Vermont.

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Travels in Alaska (Modern Library Classics)
Casa editrice: Modern Library
Data di pubblicazione: 2002
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Very Good