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The author recounts a coastal and inland journey along the North American Pacific seaboard, traveling from Alaskan glaciers and fjords through the Pacific Northwest to California and the Yellowstone region. Vivid descriptions and photographs render icefields, waterfalls, volcanic peaks, forests, fertile valleys, farms and vineyards, and rugged coastal settlements, while visits to mining towns, forts, and mission sites provide historical context. The account blends observational travel notes, natural-history detail, and impressions of local landscape and culture, moving chapter by chapter through scenic highlights and practical experiences encountered en route.
If you ask what motive she who loved these scenes had in essaying to portray them with pen and camera, she would reply that like the Duke of Buckingham, when visiting the scene where Anna of Austria had whispered that she loved him, let fall a precious gem that another finding it, might be happy in that charméd spot where he himself had been.