Travels in Alaska In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this continental laboratory of landscapes. The greatest of the tide-water glaciers appropriately commemorates his name....
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Travels in Alaska John Muir, famed naturalist, based his book “Travels in Alaska” on several journeys he made there between 1879 and 1890. Muir’s writing makes the awesome beauty of the Alaskan wilderness come alive with vivid depictions of the glaciers that exist there. “Travels in Alaska” is a must read for all nature...
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Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology This very concise, accurate introduction to the basic ideas and practices of contemporary cultural anthropology is designed to address the needs of anthropology professors who make extensive use of ethnographies and other supplementary readings in their courses. Not a standard textbook, Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology functions as a...
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