THE ALASKA ROUTE: The Cruise of the Corwin, Travels in Alaska, Stickeen & Alaska Days with John Muir (Illustrated Edition). John Muir

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       John MuirS. Hall Young

      THE ALASKA ROUTE: The Cruise of the Corwin, Travels in Alaska, Stickeen & Alaska Days with John Muir

      (Illustrated Edition)

      Adventure Memoirs and Wilderness Essays from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, The Mountains of California, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Picturesque California, Steep Trails

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      2017 OK Publishing

      ISBN 978-80-7583-808-7

      Table of Contents

       TRAVELS IN ALASKA

       THE CRUISE OF THE CORWIN

       STICKEEN: THE STORY OF A DOG

       ALASKA DAYS WITH JOHN MUIR by Samuel Hall Young

      TRAVELS IN ALASKA

       Table of Contents

Table of Contents

       Preface

       Part I. The Trip of 1879

       Chapter I. Puget Sound and British Columbia

       Chapter II. Alexander Archipelago and the Home I found in Alaska

       Chapter III. Wrangell Island and Alaska Summers

       Chapter IV. The Stickeen River

       Chapter V. A Cruise in the Cassiar

       Chapter VI. The Cassiar Trail

       Chapter VII. Glenora Peak

       Chapter VIII. Exploration of the Stickeen Glaciers

       Chapter IX. A Canoe Voyage to Northward

       Chapter X. The Discovery of Glacier Bay

       Chapter XI. The Country of the Chilcats

       Chapter XII. The Return to Fort Wrangell

       Chapter XIII. Alaska Indians

       Part II. The Trip of 1880

       Chapter XIV. Sum Dum Bay

       Chapter XV. From Taku River to Taylor Bay

       Chapter XVI. Glacier Bay

       Part III. The Trip of 1890

       Chapter XVII. In Camp at Glacier Bay

       Chapter XVIII. My Sled-Trip on the Muir Glacier

       Chapter XIX. Auroras

       Glossary of Words in the Chinook Jargon

      Preface

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      Forty years ago John Muir wrote to a friend; “I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. . . . Civilization and fever, and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me, have not dimmed my glacial eyes, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness.” How gloriously he fulfilled the promise of his early manhood! Fame, all unbidden, wore a path to his door, but he always remained a modest, unspoiled mountaineer. Kindred spirits, the greatest of his time, sought him out, even in his mountain cabin, and felt honored by his friendship. Ralph Waldo Emerson urged him to visit Concord and rest awhile from the strain of his solitary studies in the Sierra Nevada. But nothing could dislodge him from the glacial problems of the high Sierra; with passionate interest he kept at his task. “The grandeur of these forces and their glorious results,” he once wrote, “overpower me and inhabit my whole being. Waking or sleeping, I have no rest. In dreams I read blurred sheets of glacial writing, or follow lines of cleavage, or struggle with the difficulties of some extraordinary rock-form.”

      There is a note of pathos, the echo of an unfulfilled hope, in the record of his later visit to Concord. “It was seventeen years after our parting on Wawona ridge that I stood beside his [Emerson's] grave under a pine tree on the hill above Sleepy Hollow. He had gone to higher Sierras, and, as I fancied, was again waving his hand in friendly recognition.” And now John Muir has followed his friend of other days to the “higher Sierras.” His earthly remains lie among trees planted by his own hand. To the pine tree of Sleepy Hollow answers a guardian sequoia in the sunny Alhambra Valley.

      In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this continental laboratory of landscapes. The greatest of the tide-water glaciers appropriately commemorates his name. Upon this book of Alaska travels, all but finished before his unforeseen departure, John Muir expended the last months of his life. It was begun soon after his return from Africa in 1912. His eager leadership of the ill-fated campaign to save his beloved