In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage

by Robert Campbell

Book Overview

Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up the Pacific coast from Puget Sound to Icy Strait. Both the famous--including wilderness advocate John Muir, landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, and photographers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081222048X
• ISBN13: 9780812220483
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.9"