Across Widest America (Classic Reprint): Newfoundland to Alaska, With Impressions of Two Years' Sojourn on the Bering Coast Profusely Illustrated - Couverture souple

E. J. Devine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331623111 ISBN 13 : 9781331623113

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

This book charts the 7000-mile journey of a missionary as they travel across America to the Bering Sea coast of the desolate and remote Alaskan territories. This extraordinary account describes the journey, beginning in 1902, through territories and provinces that were still untamed and isolated from the rest of the world. Local Indigenous tribes, frontier settlements, and the challenges of a changing nation on the cusp of great industrial advancements are explored through the author's unique lens as they travel towards their destination and the people they would come to serve. The text gives a unique insight into the social, racial, and class-based challenges of the time, with a focus on the grandeur of the untamed American landscape, the breadth of its unique societal characteristics, and the vast changes that would be ushered in the coming century.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume embodies the substance of various articles which appeared in the London Month and the Canadian Messenger. To these some new matter has been addedy and the whole has been recast and thrown into a more permanent form. If its pages, on which the author spent some of the long winter nights in his Alaskan cabin, should bring to his readers even a tithe of the pleasure which they afforded him in the writing, their purpose will have been amply served.
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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331623111
• ISBN 13: 9781331623113
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 365
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