Alaska days with John Muir.

Young, Samuel Hall and Richard Francis Fleck.

ISBN 10: 0882409433 / ISBN 13: 9780882409436

Edité par New York: Westwinds Press, 2013., 2013

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Octavo, paperback,188 pp.,photographs, map. Samuel Hall Young, a Presbyterian clergyman, met John Muir when the great naturalist's steamboat docked at Fort Wrangell, in southeastern Alaska, where Young was a missionary. This book, first published in 1915, describes two journeys of discovery taken in company with Muir in 1879 and 1880. From the gripping account of their near-disastrous ascent of Glenora Peak to Young's perspective on Muir's famous dog story "Stickeen," "Alaska Days" is an engaging record of a friendship grounded in the shared wonders of Alaska's wild landscapes.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Alaska days with John Muir.
• Éditeur: New York: Westwinds Press, 2013.
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0882409433
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780882409436
• Reliure: Couverture souple

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Synopsis

Samuel Hall Young, a Presbyterian clergyman, met John Muir when the great naturalist's steamboat docked at Fort Wrangell, in southeastern Alaska, where Young was a missionary to the Stickeen Indians. In Alaska Days with John Muir he describes this 1879 meeting: ""A hearty grip of the hand and we seemed to coalesce in a friendship which, to me at least, has been one of the very best things in a life full of blessings.""

This book, first published in 1915, describes two journeys of discovery taken in company with Muir in 1879 and 1880. Despite the pleas of his missionary colleagues that he not risk life and limb with ""that wild Muir,"" Young accompanied Muir in the exploration of Glacier Bay. Upon Muir's return to Alaska in 1880, they traveled together and mapped the inside route to Sitka. Young describes Muir's ability to ""slide"" up glaciers, the broad Scotch he used when he was enjoying himself, and his natural affinity for Indian wisdom and theistic religion. From the gripping account of their near-disastrous ascent of Glenora Peak to Young's perspective on Muir's famous dog story ""Stickeen,"" Alaska Days is an engaging record of a friendship grounded in the shared wonders of Alaska's wild landscapes.

À propos de l'auteur

Richard F. Fleck's first published work, Palms, Peaks and Prairies, was published in 1967 when he was a young professor of English at the University of Wyoming. After twenty-five years (1965-1990) of teaching literature on the high plains of Wyoming and publishing numerous books including Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Indians and Critical Perspectives on Native American Literature and introductions to trade paperback editions of Thoreau and Muir, he and his wife Maura moved to Denver where he became a college dean on the Auraria Campus in Denver, Colorado until his retirement. During this period of time (1990-2001) he published A Colorado River Reader (2000) and in retirement wrote and published a collection of his mountaineering essays Breaking Through the Clouds (2005); a new and expanded edition of this book entitled Desert Rims to Mountains High, WestWinds Press/The Pruett Series. His new mountaineering, biographical and literary essays as well as his poetry and short fiction can be seen online at www.hubpages.com/juneaukid (which is now a featured hub). Fleck is a contributor to the Kindle Book, Funny Travel Stories, 2012 and is also author of a brand new Kindle Book, Canada and Beyond: Poems of Other Lands. He is married with 3 children and 7 grandchildren.