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A naturalist's account of three extended voyages along the North Pacific coast recounts travel through archipelagos, canoe and sled excursions, and field camps where the writer studies tidewater glaciers, ice movement, and landscape formation. Richly descriptive passages evoke coastal forests, stranded icebergs, hanging valleys, and auroral displays, while careful scientific observation explains glacial processes and vegetation limits. Interlaced with travel scenes are encounters with Indigenous communities, their villages and totem poles, practical sketches of canoe travel and camping, and a glossary of regional jargon. The work blends immersive travel narrative, natural history, and mountaineering reflection.

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Title: Travels in Alaska

Author: John Muir

Release date: January 1, 2005 [eBook #7345]
Most recently updated: June 29, 2022

Language: English

Credits: Harold Wood and Andrew Sly

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Travels in Alaska

by John Muir


Contents



Preface

Part I. The Trip of 1879
I. Puget Sound and British Columbia
II. Alexander Archipelago and the Home I found in Alaska
III. Wrangell Island and Alaska Summers
IV. The Stickeen River
V. A Cruise in the Cassiar
VI. The Cassiar Trail
VII. Glenora Peak
VIII. Exploration of the Stickeen Glaciers
IX. A Canoe Voyage to Northward
X. The Discovery of Glacier Bay
XI. The Country of the Chilcats
XII. The Return to Fort Wrangell
XIII.

Alaska Indians

Part II. The Trip of 1880
XIV. Sum Dum Bay
XV. From Taku River to Taylor Bay
XVI.

Glacier Bay

Part III. The Trip of 1890
XVII. In Camp at Glacier Bay
XVIII. My Sled-Trip on the Muir Glacier
XIX.

Auroras

Glossary of Words in the Chinook Jargon

Illustrations

Alpenglow on Summit of Mt. Muir, Harrison Fiord, Prince William Sound
Hanging Valley and Waterfall, Fraser Ranch
Lowe Inlet, British Columbia
Indian Canoes
Alaskan Hemlocks and Spruces, Sitka
Old Chief and Totem Pole, Wrangell
Admiralty Island
The Muir Glacier in the Seventies, showing Ice Cliffs and Stranded Iceberg
Stranded Icebergs, Taku Glacier
Vegetation at High-Tide Line, Sitka Harbor
Ruins of Buried Forest, East Side of Muir Glacier
Floating Iceberg, Taku Inlet