Travels in Alaska
| dc.contributor.author | Muir, John, 1838-1914. | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Parsons, Marion Randall, Mrs. | |
| dc.contributor.illustrator | Gleason, Herbert W. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.illustrator | Hill, Thomas. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-03-10T16:10:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-03-10T16:10:55Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1915 | |
| dc.description | The Riverside Press Cambridge. | en_US |
| dc.description | This book is part of the Natural History Collection, a book collection which supports the James Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Prepared for publication by Mrs. Marion Randall Parsons. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Illustrations: Alpenglow on summit of Mt. Muir, Harrison Fiord, Prince William Sound -- Hanging Valley and waterfall, Fraser Reach -- Lowe Inlet, British Columbia -- Indian canoes -- Alaskan hemlocks and spruces, Sitka -- Old chief and totem pole, Wrangell -- Admirality Island -- The Muir Glacier in the seventies, showing ice cliffes and stranded icebergs (from a photograph owned by Mr. Muir) -- Stranded icebergs, Taku Glacier -- Vegetation at high-tide line, Stika Harbor -- Ruins of buried forest, east side of Muir Glacier (from a photograph owned by Mr. Muir) -- Floating iceberg, Taku Inlet. Except where otherwise indicated the illustrations are from photographs by Herbert W. Gleason. The colored half-tone which appears on the cover is from a painting of the Muir Glacier by Thomas Hill, owned by Mr. Muir. | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | Part I. The Trip of 1879. Puget Sound and British Columbia -- Alexander Archipelago and the home I found in Alaska -- Wrangell Island and Alaska summers -- The Stickeen River -- A cruise in the Cassiar -- The Cassiar Trail -- Glenora Peak -- Exploration of the Stickeen Glaciers -- A canoe voyage to northward -- The discovery of Glacier Bay -- The country of the chilcats -- The return to Fort Wrangell -- Alaska Indians. Part II. The Trip of 1880. Sum Dum Bay -- From Taku River to Taylor Bay -- Glacier Bay -- In camp at Glacier Bay -- My sled-trip on the Muir Glacier -- Auroras -- Index -- Glossary of words in the Chinook jargon. | en_US |
| dc.format | Text | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10605/238 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin | en_US |
| dc.rights | The images in this collection are for study purposes, teaching, classroom projection and research only. To use these images in any form, an attribution of "Courtesy of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library" must accompany the image. | e |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Alaska. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Natural history -- Alaska. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Naturalist -- United States -- Biography. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Conservationists -- United States -- Biography. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Alaska -- Description and travel. | en_US |
| dc.title | Travels in Alaska | en_US |
| dc.type | Book | en_US |
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