Letters From Alaska (North Coast Books) [Paperback]

John Muir (Author), Bruce Merrell (Contributor), Robert E. Engberg (Contributor)

Book Description

Series: North Coast Books | Publication Date: October 15, 1993

John Muir (1838–1914), founder of the Sierra Club, was one of the most famous and influential environmental conservationists of all time. From 1879 to 1880 Muir traveled the waters of southeastern Alaska in a Tlingit Indian dugout canoe and reported his encounters in a series of letters published in the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin. Collected here are Muir’s original letters, bearing the immediacy and candor of his best work and providing a rare account of southeastern Alaska history, alongside breathtaking observations of glaciers and the untamed landscape. Through Muir we encounter gold miners, rogue towns, Taku Inlet, Glacier Bay, profiles of Tlingit Indians, and the infancy of the tourist industry. This collection of work by one of America’s foremost naturalists provides a magnificent look into early conservationist thought and one individual’s encounter with nature.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Robert Engberg has studied Muir's life for some thirty years. He is coeditor of John Muir to Yosemite and Beyond and John Muir Summering in the Sierra. Bruce D. Merrell is Alaska bibliographer for Anchorage Municipal Libraries and president of the Alaska Historical Society.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 148 pages
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press (October 15, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0299139549
• ISBN-13: 978-0299139544
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.5 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,241,484 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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