Travels in Alaska

John Muir (1838 - 1914)

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. (Summary by William Frederic Bade)

Genre(s): Travel & Geography, Memoirs

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 00 - Preface Esther
00:06:15
Play 01 01 - Puget Sound and British Columbia L. Lambert Lawson
00:16:55
Play 02 02 - Alexander Archipelago and the Home I found in Alaska John Dennison
00:19:37
Play 03 03 - Wrangell Island and Alaska Summers John Dennison
00:30:38
Play 04 04 - The Stickeen River greatbasinrain
00:21:42
Play 05 05 - A Cruise in the Cassiar Josh Smith
00:33:44
Play 06 06 - The Cassiar Trail Jersey City Frankie
00:16:20
Play 07 07 - Glenora Peak LivelyHive
00:19:57
Play 08 08 - Exploration of the Stickeen Glaciers Josh Smith
00:28:18
Play 09 09 - A Canoe Voyage to Northward Robert White
00:44:05
Play 10 10 - The Discovery of Glacier Bay LivelyHive
00:41:17
Play 11 11 - The Country of the Chilcats John Dennison
00:25:30
Play 12 12 - The Return to Fort Wrangell John Dennison
00:31:24
Play 13 13 - Alaska Indians Bellona Times
00:13:45
Play 14 14 - Sum Dum Bay Mark F. Smith
00:47:06
Play 15 15 - From Taku River to Taylor Bay John Dennison
00:40:15
Play 16 16 - Glacier Bay John Dennison
00:20:13
Play 17 17 - In Camp at Glacier Bay Josh Smith
00:37:29
Play 18 18 - My Sled-Trip on the Muir Glacier LivelyHive
00:37:00
Play 19 19 - Auroras LivelyHive
00:13:26
Play 20 20 - Glossary of Words in the Chinook Jargon Bellona Times
00:01:49