Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska?Including Extensive Hitherto Unpublished Passages from the Original Journal

Rockwell Kent

ISBN 10: 0819552933 / ISBN 13: 9780819552938

Editore: Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 1996

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Minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlinding; a very good reading copy; illustrated with black and white reproductions of Kent's woodcuts and drawings; 203 pages.

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• Titolo: Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska?Including Extensive Hitherto Unpublished Passages from the Original Journal
• Editore: Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0819552933
• ISBN 13: 9780819552938
• Rilegatura: Soft cover
• Edizione: Third Printing.
• Condizione: As New
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Jacket as Issued
• Tipo di libro: Book

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Riassunto

A new paperback edition of Kent's first book, often referred to as "Alaska's Walden."

In August 1918 Rockwell Kent and his 9-year-old son settled into a primitive cabin on an island near Seward, Alaska. Kent, who during the next three decades became America's premier graphic artist, printmaker, and illustrator, was seeking time, peace, and solitude to work on his art and strengthen ties with his son. This reissue of the journal chronicling their 7-month odyssey describes what Kent called "an adventure of the spirit." He soon discovers how deeply he is "stirred by simple happenings in a quiet world" as man and boy face both the mundane and the magnificent: satisfaction in simple chores like woodchopping or baking; the appalling gloom of long and lonely winter nights; hours of silence while each works at his drawings; crystalline moonlight glancing off a frozen lake; killer whales cavorting in their bay. Richly illustrated by Kent's drawings, the journal vividly re-creates that sense of great height and space -- both external and internal -- at the same time that it celebrates a wilderness now nearly lost to us.

Informazioni sugli autori

ROCKWELL KENT (1882 - 1971) was one of America's most celebrated graphic artists. Although his illustrations for Shakespeare's Complete Works and Moby Dick may be his most famous achievements, his artwork appeared everywhere at the height of his career. Wesleyan University Press has also re-issued N by E, Voyaging, and A Northern Christmas. All of Kent's travel books have appeared in limited editions since his death -- a tribute to their perennial appeal.

Doug Capra teaches English in Seward, Alaska. His articles on Kent have appeared in such publications as Alaska Magazine and The Kent Collector.

ROCKWELL KENT (1872-1971) was one of America's most celebrated graphic artists. Although he is perhaps best known for his illustrations for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare and Moby Dick, his artwork appeared everywhere at the height of his career. Kent also created the "random house" that, despite revision throughout the years, has been the colophon of that company since its inception in 1928. Kent's other travel books include N by E, Wilderness, and Voyaging, all reissued by Wesleyan University Press, a tribute to their perennial appeal. DOUG CAPRA came to Alaska in 1971 and taught school in the Aleutian Islands, in Seward, and at Kenai Peninsula College. He retired after twenty-four years, and then spent seventeen years as a seasonal and permanent ranger at Kenai Fjords National Park. Capra has served on the board of the Alaska Historical Society and written extensively about Alaska history, including three books, several forewords, and many articles about Rockwell Kent published in The Kent Collector. He has spent many years wandering Fox Island and Resurrection Bay to learn more about Kent's experience. Capra's book, The Spaces Between: Stories from the Kenai Mountains to the Kenai Fjords, includes two chapters about Kent. He has written and directed two plays, And Now the World Again, about Rockwell Kent; and Into Alaska a Woman Came, about a pioneer woman called Alaska Nellie. He has written the forewords for two of Kent's books published by the Wesleyan University Press Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska; and Northern Christmas. He lives in Seward, only twelve miles from Fox Island, and occasionally works as a naturalist aboard cruise ships.