Green Alaska: Dreams from the Far Coast (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781582430782)

In 1899 Edward Harriman, the railroad tycoon and most powerful man in America, assembled an elite crew of scientists and artists and took them on a two month survey of the Alaskan coast. Its 126 members included mountaineer John Muir, nature writer John Burroughs, biologist C. Hart Merriam, naturalist and Alaskan expert William Dall, bird artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes, ornithologist George Bird Grinnell, and photographer Edward Curtis. The expedition returned with 100 trunks of specimens and over 5000 photographs and coloured illustrations. The scientists produced 13 volumes of data that took 12 years to compile.

Author: Nancy Lord
ISBN-10: 1582430780
ISBN-13: 9781582430782
Publisher: Black Balloon Publishing LLC DBA Counterpoint
Language: English
Published: 03/16/2000
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.28w x 0.57d

Review Citation(s):
Women's Review of Books 07/01/2001 pg. 27