Travels in Alaska

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 <i>Travels in Alaska</i> a work he was in the process of completing at the time of his death in 1914. As Edward Hoagland writes in his Introduction &#147;A century and a quarter later we are reading [Muir&#146;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&#151;is the Earth&#151;and rapture is the sensible response wherever a clear line of sight remains.&#148;<br><br>This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes photographs from the original 1915 edition.