ection>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
ALASKA DAYS WITH JOHN MUIR by Samuel Hall Young
TRAVELS IN ALASKA
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 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 XV. From Taku River to Taylor Bay
Chapter XVII. In Camp at Glacier Bay
Chapter XVIII. My Sled-Trip on the Muir Glacier
Glossary of Words in the Chinook Jargon
Preface
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
