Green Alaska

"This contemporary account of the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition is nature writing at its best. One hundred years after that landmark voyage, Nancy Lord follows by boat and dream, seeking to understand this century's attitudes toward nature, landscape, and culture. The Harriman Alaska Expedition assembled a company of exceptional characters - the nature writers John Burroughs and John Muir, photographer Edward Curtis, scientist William Dall, conservationist and ethnographer George Bird Grinnell, bird artist Louis Agassiz-Fuertes, geologist Henry Gannett, and others - to explore Alaska's…