![]() Indeed so regularly does he meditate on them and bring them to life that the reader is left wondering of their current state of existence amid this bleak Anthropocene in which we are living. This is particularly the case with glaciers, they seem to possess him and call to him throughout his writing, their raw beauty and power and the tracks of their moraines are an endless source of fascination to him. Rarely has nature been written about with fervour and purity as it is here: this book catches a man’s wonderment at the natural world.As Muir travels a country less sullied than the world we live in, he encounters countless mountains, rivers, peoples and glaciers that capture his imagination. ![]() A little like Nan Shepherd’s classic ‘The Living Mountain’, John Muir’s ‘Travels in Alaska’ is truly a meditation on nature. ![]()
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