Travels in Alaska by John Muir (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)

Manuscript specimen

Fragment from a draft of chapter 7, page 148: "+ looking more nearly you may trace the branching of their fairy shining stems, + note the marvelous beauty of their [memorable?] flowers; the glumes + pales exquisitely penciled, + the yellow dangling stamens + feathery pistils. Beneath the lowest leaves of the grasses"

Added images

• Color frontispiece (same image as facing page 58): A Glacial Fiord

• Facing page 14: Islands in the Inside Passage to Alaska.

• Facing page 20: In Grenville Channel.

• Facing page 32: An Indian Totem Pole at Wrangell.

• Facing page 36: Alaskan Indians in Canoes.

• Facing page 86: Luxuriance of Coastal Vegetation.

• Facing page 90: Alaskan Chief and Totem-Pole at Wrangell.

• Facing page 114: The Alaskan Coast Range, from a summit near Glenora Peak.

• Facing page 122: Devil's-Club.

• Facing page 128: Glacial Ice-Caves.

• Facing page 148: Forest bordering a Stream.

• Facing page 174: In Glacier Bay.

• Facing page 176: Sunset in Glacier Bay.

• Facing page 192: Stranded Bergs in Glacier Bay.

• Facing page 218: Overlooking Lynn Canal.

• Facing page 238: Alaska Indians employed at a Salmon Cannery.

• Facing page 258: Alaska Salmon Crowding up Stream.

• Facing page 260: Floating Icebergs.

• Facing page 288: The Taku Fiord.

• Facing page 290: The Taku Glacier.

• Facing page 312: Dundas Bay.

• Facing page 318: The Muir Glacier.

• Facing page 330: Steamer "Queen." [Native Indian canoes in the foreground]

• Facing page 334: The Norris Glacier.

• Facing page 336: Early Morning in Glacier Bay.

• Facing page 340: Ice-Cliff at the Foot of Muir Glacier.