Letters From Alaska

Letters From AlaskaJohn Muir (18381914), founder of the Sierra Club, was one of the most famous and influential environmental conservationists of all time. From 1879 to 1880 Muir traveled the waters of southeastern Alaska in a Tlingit Indian dugout canoe and reported his encounters in a series of letters published in the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin. Collected here are Muirs original letters, bearing the immediacy and candor of his best work and providing a rare

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