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  <title><![CDATA[Travels in Alaska]]></title>
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  <default_description>Take a trip to last century's Alaska through Muir's clean, easy-going, enthusiastic prose. He wrote the way he took pictures, with insight, attention, care and genuine feeling. It's a lovely look into a beautiful land and its inhabitants the way it used to be, told in a flowing narrative that is far less rushed than contemporary travel tales.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1911</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Travels In Alaska (The Works Of John Muir)</original_title>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[John Muir is awesome.  It is hard for me to fathom what it would be like to travel to Alaska only 30-some years after Seward purchased it from Russia.  Sure there was a bit of traffic from Yukon gold findings (I just finished <em>Call of the Wild</em>, which takes place about the same time), but for the most...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41173983">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[John Muir has transformed the way in which I interact with Nature as I have read his works in the last two years. His writing style is can be a bit difficult to get into. It is flowery and almost biblical in its descriptions, probably owing to the fact that he had memorized both the Old and New Test...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73095771">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I’ve been interested in Muir’s life and work ever since seeing so much of California, so passing up his edited journals on a newly acquired and mostly unspoiled Alaska was not even an option.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far this book is a great peek into Alaskan wilderness in the early 1900s. John Muir is a great writer of wildlife and he paints a picture in your mind of how out-of-the-way places like Wrangle looked back then when white people were coming in and taking over. It is interesting but I didn't give i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24356949">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I began this book while in Alaska, and while Muir is very enthusiastic about the landscape, the book is more of a travelogue than the kind of insight into the landscape that I was looking for. I struggled to make time for it in Alaska, and had no interest to continue when I returned.<br/><br/>With...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3363896">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been reading this book, a couple pages at a time, for about 10 years.  It's so incredibly beautiful and is what inspired a trip to Alaska in 1999.  I don't care about a plot or anything else when I read it...I just like to suck it in like the clean Alaskan air.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautifully written description of the Inside Passage.  Muir's writing echoes my sentiments exactly of the wonders of that enchanting area and the reflections of God in Nature.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Warning: lots of glaciers, lots of walking alone on said glaciers and describing their glacial properties.  This book is great if you like that sort of thing (like I do). ]]></body>
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