Download or read book The Wonders of Alaska Classic Reprint written by Alexander Badlam and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wonders of Alaska While the eye of almost the entire world is directed to the wonders of the comparatively unexplored regions of the far northwest, and while the elegant steamers that weekly ply the inland channel, from Port Townsend to Glacier Bay are crowded to their utmost capacity, it would seem an opportune time to publish an illustrated work on the wonders of Alaska. 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.
Download or read book Touring Alaska and the Yellowstone Classic Reprint written by Charles Maus Taylor Jr. and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Touring Alaska and the Yellowstone Can one visit the arctic region of Alaska, whose snowy peaks and giant glaciers are unsurpassed by the known wonders Of the globe - whose untold wealth reminds him Of the subterranean treasures Of the genii, - and come away no richer in thought and feeling from the experiences Of this journey to the land of the midnight sun? Yes, America comes with both hands filled, and Offers her gigantic spectacles, her unparalleled won ders to add to the great store of human knowledge. 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.
Download or read book Alaska written by Ella Higginson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Alaska: The Great Country Soul-sick am I, O God, of little things Small pleasures, aspirations, creeds, desires; Low valleys, slender brooks and hearthside fires. I want the sweep of wide, triumphant wings; The halleluiah that the ocean sings; The wind that roars like beasts and never tires! Great God, my soul aches to the mighty lgres Of Nature To men heritaged as kings Who dare, aspire, achieve, not counting cost, So that a deed be done that reaches far A new land won; a perilous water crossed; So that a man coming to his last rest Shall wear upon his brow the splendid star That leads the glorious empire - builders West! 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.
Download or read book Through Wonderland to Alaska Classic Reprint written by William H. Myers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Through Wonderland to Alaska The readers of the times, while they will be pleased to hear of the safe return of our esteemed townsman, Rev. Wm. H. Myers, from his trip to Alaska, will no doubt be sorry to miss a continuation of the graphically-written'letters of travel which he has contributed to the columns of this paper for several months past. These letters lhaye called out many com plimentary expressions from among a large circle of admlring readers, and the general consensus of Opinion is that in point of close observation, fine descriptive power, felicity of expression, the apt use of his torical incidents with which the writer ih terwove his interesting narrative, these letters possess a value and literary attract iveness that entitles them to more than the mere passing interest that attaches to a newspaper publication. They should be collected and printed in book-form, as they would adorn any library. - Eu'. Times. 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.
Download or read book Thirteen Years of Travel and Exploration in Alaska Classic Reprint written by W. H. Pierce and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thirteen Years of Travel and Exploration in Alaska It is the intention of the writer of this book to put before the reader the knowl edge he has gained of the Territory of Alaska, both of the coast and interior, its gold and silver mines, its fisheries; in' fact, to give a truthful and reliable account of all its valuable resources and geological and botanical curiosities. A true and reliable knowledge of these things has been obtained in thirteen years of travel and exploration in this little known Territory. 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.
Download or read book Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska Classic Reprint written by Charles Warren Stoddard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska There was no sleep during the closing night not one solitary wink; all laws were dead-letters alas that they should so soon arise again from the dead! - and when the wreath of stars that crowns the golden statue of Our Lady on the high dome, two hundred feet in air, and the wide-sweeping crescent under her shining feet, burst suddenly into flame, and shed a lustre that was welcomed for miles and miles over the plains of Indiana - then, I assure you, we were all so deeply touched that we knew not whether to laugh or to weep, and I shall not tell you which we did. The moon was very full that night, and I didn't blame it! 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.
Download or read book Wonderland Or Alaska and the Inland Passage Classic Reprint written by John Hyde and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wonderland or Alaska and the Inland Passage Multi discurrent, et augebitur stultitia" Thus did one of the profoundest of modern thinkers parody the prediction of the Hebrew prophet who foretold the time when, with increased facilities for travel and intercommunication, there should come a great enlargement of the bounds of knowledge, and a corresponding amelioration of the condition of humanity. It would, however, be strange indeed, if the complex process of social evolution, even in its present stage, were not marked by some of the indications of a retrograde movement. The age in which we live has undoubtedly its peculiar follies and foibles, which are but thrown into relief by the qualities that more generally distinguish it. But many are running to and fro, and knowledge is being increased. Nature is revealing herself to the traveler in new forms and aspects, and disclosing to his wondering gaze mysterious pages of her great book hitherto hidden from him. And while extensive tracts of country, presenting physical features to which the entire known world furnishes no parallel, have been brought by railroad enterprise within reach alike of the curious sight-seer and the inquiring student, a vast region, of almost unexampled wealth-producing capabilities, has, by the same agency, been thrown open to that advancing tide of civilization which is rapidly overspreading the world. Hence the traveler journeying to Wonderland - to that enchanted realm where the most extravagant creations of the fancy appear trivial and commonplace beside the more extraordinary works of Nature - sees also, in process of solution, some of the hitherto most perplexing problems of economics; observes, as he can not do with like facility anywhere else in the world, the well-ordered plan upon which the bounty of Nature is distributed; and witnesses the unlocking of vast storehouses of good, to supply the increasing needs of the human race. It may be doubted whether the world affords another tour at once so delightful and so instructive as that which, beginning at the head of the Mississippi valley, and crossing the great wheat fields of Dakota and Eastern Washington, the stock ranges of Montana, and the gold and silver ribbed mountains of Montana and Idaho, embraces also the wonders of the Yellowstone National Park, and the incomparable scenery of the Columbia river, to crown all with the stupendous sights of that Great Land whose unique natural features have earned for it the well-deserved title of "Wonderland." No longer one of peril and hardship, but, on the contrary, one of absolute luxury, this tour has, within the last two years, attracted thousands of pilgrims from all parts of the civilized world. To them, as well as to all other lovers of the sublime and beautiful, and to the students of the mysteries of Nature in all lands, who may have the good fortune to visit the far Northwest in 1886, the following pages are respectfully inscribed. 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.
Download or read book All About Alaska Classic Reprint written by Pacific Coast Steamship Co and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from All About Alaska Parties purchasing tickets or making inquiry by letter with the view of purchasing tickets, will save themselves and their correspondents much trouble and delay by furnishing specific information. 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.
Download or read book The New Eldorado written by Maturin Murray Ballou and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New Eldorado: A Summer Journey to Alaska The Great Yellowstone Lake. Myriads of Birds. Solitary Beauty of the Lake - The Flora of the Park. - Devas tating Fires. Wild Animals. Grand Volcanic Centre. Mountain Climbing and Wonderful Views. A Story of Discovery. Government Exploration of the Reservation. 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.
Download or read book Alaska Classic Reprint written by Canadian Pacific Railway Company and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Alaska Blank leaves added during restorations may appear within thetext. Whenever possible. These have been omitted from filming I ll so pout quo cor'tainos pages blanches ajoutoes lors d'une restauration apparaissent dons Io toxte. Mais, -lorsque cola tait possible. Cos pages n'ont pas ate iilm'oes. 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.
Download or read book Wonderland Or the Pacific Northwest and Alaska written by John Hyde and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wonderland, or the Pacific Northwest and Alaska: With a Description of the Country Traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad Now, if the American people, or such of them as have the means and leisure to travel, are not open to the reproach of caring nothing for the beauties and wonders of the world they live. In, that they have sought them hitherto in the eastern rather than the western hemisphere is a fact too notorious to be called in question. It is doubtful whether, of the Americans who visited Europe during the summer of 1887, one in a hundred had ever gazed upon the mysterious and awe-inspiring scenes of that greatest of the world's natural wonders, the Yellowstone National Park; or whether even one in a thousand had experienced that indescribable exaltation of feeling which takes possession of the traveler as he looks for the first time upon the mountains and glaciers of imperial Alaska. 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.
Download or read book The Rainbow s End written by Alice Palmer Henderson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Rainbow's End: Alaska And it was the second day: They Sped across the prairies, the level threshing floors Of the world's gran ary, swept clean of wheat now, with pools of water showing that Dame Nature had barely finished her Spring house-cleaning. Flowers peered out every where as they passed; the year was too young for hard work. The third day they passed through Bismarck, North Dakota, a town which has always had enough cranks to turn every freak machine extant. They crossed the muddy Missouri at the little town Of Mandan, named from the curious blue-eyed Indians who once lived about it, a powerful tribe. At Medora they caught Sight of the Marquis de Mores' castle, high perched upon a crag, and of the great packing houses builded with his American wife's rocks. The little town was named after her. At the mansion extravagant hospitality was once dispensed. House parties feasted, danced, hunted, marveling at the surrounding wilder ness and the luxury that had invaded it. But the mar quis has ended his adventurous life in far away Africa, the great buildings are abandoned, like the foolish scheme that demanded them, and serve only to bring to mind a man whose fine riding and personal bravery were his most conspicuous virtues. 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.
Download or read book From Yellowstone Park to Alaska Classic Reprint written by Francis C. Sessions and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from From Yellowstone Park to Alaska Our tour to Yellowstone Park and Alaska commenced at St. Paul. We passed through the beautiful country of Minnesota, with its ten thousand lakes and picturesque outlooks, and all along the road we saw the best growing corn that we had seen any where, of rich green color, already tasseled out, although it was but the twelfth of July. There was great complaint of a want of rain to save the spring wheat. We passed through some of the largest wheat farms in the world, one farm of fifty thousand acres, the property of Mr. Dalrymple, interesting us particularly. It is a great curiosity to see the reaping and binding machines at work upon these immense farms. 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.
Download or read book The Ascent of Mount St Elias written by Luigi Amedeo and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ascent of Mount St. Elias: Alaska In the acute and subtle criticism of modern Alpinism with which Mr. Mummery concludes the narrative of his own expeditions, he says that "the true Alpinist is the man who attempts new ascents." This opinion is undoubtedly shared by those climbers who turn eagerly to the few Alpine peaks forgotten or neglected by earlier explorers, and are conquering them in such rapid succession that soon no virgin summit will be left in that range. But, in fact, the conquest of the Alps was virtually accomplished many years ago. The giant peaks were already won, and ambitious climbers, including several of those who had taken part in the great battle, then left home to seek new perils and fresh victories farther afield. Thus began a series of Alpine expeditions to remote and inhospitable regions, little known or totally unexplored - regions where technical experience of mountain work had to be supplemented by a wide and varied knowledge and power of resource in order to successfully cope with the obstacles and dangers of exploration. 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.
Download or read book WONDERS OF ALASKA written by ALEXANDER. BADLAM and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alaska written by John E. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Alaska: Its Waters, Land and Life I Cannot remember the name of that special agent, who suggested to the Forty-first Congress that Alaska be abandoned by the United States upon the ground that it was an unprofitable investment, but whoever he was I will hazard the opinion that, at the time of writing his report, he had never made a tour through the inner passage. That he had never steamed among the islands and canals which fringe the coast from Dixoa's Entrance, two hundred miles to the St. Elias Range, and thence with a stretch of sea and a northward curve on to Prince William Sound and the Kenai Peninsula. That he had never been thrilled by the experience of such a journey I will warrant, for if he had known such, it passes reason to imagine that he could ever have recommended our parting with what he could not but have recognized will, in time, become popularized as the grandest scenic region of the world. For as far as do the colors and fretwork of a California sunset lie beyond the powers of detailed reproduction by the artist, so do the scenic marvels of these isles and channels surpass the limit of descriptive narrative. From the time that you enter Clarence Strait until you move through Cross Sound again into the North Pacific, you are encompassed by a swiftly changing panorama of surprises. Your first sensations will be that you have strangely stepped off the ocean and are making a journey through inland waters that are not related to the sea. For the fresh scent in the cold, damp air is not the odor of brine, and this commingling with the agreeable exhalations of the forests which clothe the mountains upon your either hand, makes you feel that you are winding amongst a a mesh of rivers in some semi-frigid interior. As you move along the intricate ways, some of them scarcely two ships length from bank to bank, you note that few of the islands have beaches, and that most of them rise abruptly out of the water and carry their dark green foliage boldly up to the line of snow. It is one hundred and fifty miles from the open sea to the farthest reach of tide water, but from many positions, as you pass along, you may have in plain sight the high, snow-whitened eminences of the Coast Range of mountains. Indeed, these gloomy verdured cones, standing here and there about you, environing you with their stalwart forms, seem but water-set foothills to those loftier, steeper, more broken elevations. Very often an overhanging fog obscures your vision to all but your close surroundings, and perhaps an almost ever present rain may fill the air. 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.
