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)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
00 - Preface
06:15 - Chapter 2
01 - Puget Sound and British Columbia
16:55 - Chapter 3
02 - Alexander Archipelago and the Home I found in Alaska
19:37 - Chapter 4
03 - Wrangell Island and Alaska Summers
30:38 - Chapter 5
04 - The Stickeen River
21:42 - Chapter 6
05 - A Cruise in the Cassiar
33:44 - Chapter 7
06 - The Cassiar Trail
16:20 - Chapter 8
07 - Glenora Peak
19:57 - Chapter 9
08 - Exploration of the Stickeen Glaciers
28:18 - Chapter 10
09 - A Canoe Voyage to Northward
44:05 - Chapter 11
10 - The Discovery of Glacier Bay
41:17 - Chapter 12
11 - The Country of the Chilcats
25:30 - Chapter 13
12 - The Return to Fort Wrangell
31:24 - Chapter 14
13 - Alaska Indians
13:45 - Chapter 15
14 - Sum Dum Bay
47:06 - Chapter 16
15 - From Taku River to Taylor Bay
40:15 - Chapter 17
16 - Glacier Bay
20:13 - Chapter 18
17 - In Camp at Glacier Bay
37:29 - Chapter 19
18 - My Sled-Trip on the Muir Glacier
37:00 - Chapter 20
19 - Auroras
13:26 - Chapter 21
20 - Glossary of Words in the Chinook Jargon
01:49