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John Muir wrote about his adventure in the Alaska Territory in this book, documenting his hope of studying the landscape and glaciers.
To the lover of pure wildness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. It seems as if surely we must at length reach the very paradise of the poets, the abode of the blessed.
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Episode: Encore: National Parks | Fire and Ice | 6
John Muir wrote about his adventure in the Alaska Territory in this book, documenting his hope of studying the landscape and glaciers.
To the lover of pure wildness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. It seems as if surely we must at length reach the very paradise of the poets, the abode of the blessed.
Pushing on through rain and mud and sludgy snow, crossing many brown, boulder- choked torrents, wading, jumping, and wallowing in snow up to my shoulders was mountaineering of the most trying kind.
All the landscape was smothered in clouds, and I began to fear that as wide views were concerned, I had climbed in vain. But at length, the clouds lifted a little, and beneath their gray fringes I saw a berg-filled expanse of the bay, and the feet of the mountains that stand about it, and the imposing fronts of five huge glaciers, the nearest being immediately beneath me. This was my first general view of Glacier Bay--dim, dreary, mysterious.
Episode: National Parks - Fire and Ice | 6
This book recounted John Muir's adventures exploring the Alaskan landscape, focusing particularly on his interest in its glaciers.
To the lover of pure wildness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. It seems as if surely we must at length reach the very paradise of the poets, the abode of the blessed.
Pushing on through rain and mud and sludgy snow, crossing many brown, boulder-choked torrents, wading, jumping, and wallowing in snow up to my shoulders was mountaineering of the most trying kind. All the landscape was smothered in clouds, and I began to fear that as wide views were concerned I had climbed in vain.