Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska--Including Extensive Hitherto Unpublished Passages from the Original Journal Paperback - 1996
by Rockwell Kent; Doug Capra (Other)
From the rear cover
In August 1918 Rockwell Kent and his 9-year-old son settled into a primitive cabin on an island near Seward, Alaska. Kent, who during the next three decades became America's premier graphic artist, printmaker, and illustrator, was seeking time, peace, and solitude to work on his art and strengthen his ties with his son. This reissue of the journal chronicling their 7-month odyssey describes what Kent called "an adventure of the spirit". He soon discovers how deeply he is "stirred by simple happenings in a quiet world" as man and boy face both the mundane and the magnificent: satisfaction in simple chores like woodchopping or baking; the appalling gloom of long and lonely winter nights; hours of silence while each works at his drawings; crystalline moonlight glancing off a frozen lake; killer whales cavorting in their bay. Richly illustrated by Kent's drawings, the journal vividly re-creates that sense of great height and space - both external and internal - at the same time that it celebrates a wilderness now nearly lost to us.
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- Title Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska--Including Extensive Hitherto Unpublished Passages from the Original Journal
- Author Rockwell Kent; Doug Capra (Other)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Second Reprint P
- Pages 237
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wesleyan University Press, Hanover, NH
- Date 1996-07-26
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Limited Edition
- ISBN 9780819552938 / 0819552933
- Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 10.04 x 7.14 x 0.79 in (25.50 x 18.14 x 2.01 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Library of Congress subjects Kent, Rockwell, Renard Island (Alaska) - Description and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95045450
- Dewey Decimal Code 917.984
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