Travels in Alaska (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Muir, John) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Travels in Alaska Forty years ago John Muir wrote to a friend; "I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer... Civilization and fever, and app the morbidness that has been hooted at me, have not dimmed my glacial eyes, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature´s loveliness." How gloriously he fulfilled the promise has is early manhood! Fame, all unbidden, wrote a path to his door, but he always remained a modest,unspoiled mountaineer. Kindred spirits, the greatest of his time, sough him out, even in his mountain cabin, and felt honored by his friendship. Ralph Waldo Emerson urged him to visit Concord and rest awhile from the strain of his solitary studies in the Sierra Nevada. But nothing could dislodge him from the glacial problems of the high Sierra; with passionate interest he kept at his task. "The grandeur of these forces and their glorious results," he once wrote, "overpower me and inhabit results," he once wrote, "overpower me and inhabit my whole being. Walking or Sleeping, I have no rest. In dreams I read blurred sheets of glacial writing, or follow lines of cleavage, or struggle with the difficulties of some extraordinary rock-form." There is a note of pathos, the echo of an unfulfilled hope, in the record of his later visit to Concord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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