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An artist's journal recounts a season on a remote Alaskan island, pairing intimate drawings with spare, day-to-day entries. It records cabin routines, the quiet domestic bonds between the artist, his young son, and an elderly companion, and workaday tasks rendered comic or poignant. Close observations of weather, wildlife, and landscape emphasize the wilderness's tranquillity rather than dramatic peril, while reflections on art and simple creative living run through the sketches and notes.

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Title: Wilderness, A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska

Author: Rockwell Kent

Release date: July 24, 2013 [eBook #43284]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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WILDERNESS
A JOURNAL OF QUIET
ADVENTURE IN ALASKA
BY ROCKWELL KENT

ROCKWELL
ALASKA MCMXVIII

WILDERNESS
A JOURNAL OF QUIET ADVENTURE
IN ALASKA
BY
 ROCKWELL KENT

WITH DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR
AND AN INTRODUCTION BY
DOROTHY CANFIELD

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1920

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY ROCKWELL KENT
PLATES ENGRAVED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF WILLIAM G. WATT

THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, NEW YORK

To
old L. M. Olson and
young Rockwell Kent
of Fox Island
this journal is
respectfully dedicated

The author acknowledges the courtesy of the owners of his drawings in permitting their reproduction in this book:

MRS. ERNEST I. WHITE
ROBERT NICHOLS
STEPHEN C. CLARK
MRS. PAYNE THOMPSON
MRS. JOSEPH FLANNERY
MRS. J. S. MORGAN, JR.
DR. ARNOLD KLEBS
HENRY S. CHURCHILL
MRS. PERCY W. DARBYSHIRE
MRS. MEREDITH HARE
PAUL MANSHIP
MRS. VALENTINE WINTERS
HENRY NEWMAN
HUNT DIEDERICH
PURCELL JONES
M. KNOEDLER AND COMPANY
ALBERT STERNER
MARIE STERNER