Travels in Alaska (annotated)

Travels in Alaska, by John Muir, is a fine example of John Muir nature writing and an exciting Alaska travelogue. Forty years ago John Muir wrote to a friend; "I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. . . . Civilization and fever, and all 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 of his early manhood! Fame, all unbidden, wore a path to his doo...