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Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
**The National Best Seller**
From the acclaimed, best-selling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating and funny journey into Alaska, America's last frontier, retracing the historic 1899 Harriman Expedition.
In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds of Alaska: He converted a steamship into a luxury "floating university", populated by some of America's best and brightest scientists and writers, including the anti-capitalist eco-prophet, John Muir. Those aboard encountered a land of immeasurable beauty and impending environmental calamity. More than 100 years later, Alaska is still America's most sublime wilderness, both the lure that draws a million tourists annually on Inside Passage cruises and a natural resources larder waiting to be raided. As ever, it remains a magnet for weirdos and dreamers.
Armed with Dramamine and an industrial-strength mosquito net, Mark Adams sets out to retrace the 1899 expedition. Using the state's intricate public ferry system, the Alaska Marine Highway System, Adams travels 3,000 miles, following the George W. Elder's itinerary north through Wrangell, Juneau, and Glacier Bay, then continuing west into the colder and stranger regions of the Aleutians and the Arctic Circle. Along the way, he encounters dozens of unusual characters (and a couple of very hungry bears) and investigates how lessons learned in 1899 might relate to Alaska's current struggles in adapting to climate change.
- Listening Length9 hours and 12 minutes
- Audible release dateMay 15, 2018
- LanguageEnglish
- ASINB07B4JVP5F
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook
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Product details
Listening Length | 9 hours and 12 minutes |
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Author | Mark Adams |
Narrator | Mark Adams |
Whispersync for Voice | Ready |
Audible.com Release Date | May 15, 2018 |
Publisher | Penguin Audio |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B07B4JVP5F |
Best Sellers Rank | #124,874 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #87 in North America Travel & Tourism #381 in Travel Writing & Commentary #1,043 in Pacific West United States Travel Books |
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The constant throughout is the Alaskan wilderness. Adams allows the original explorers to speak for themselves, and passages by John Muir and John Burroughs are powerful in communicating the wild vastness and shocking beauty of Alaska and the awe they felt as they encountered it. But Adams’ writing is so vivid and affecting about nature, and his descriptions so good, that it is his writing that makes the real connection for you to wild Alaska.
Finally, Adams is no armchair adventurer, and his enthusiastic pursuit of the journey pays off in two ways. He has real adventures, recalled with humor and terror disguised as humor. But most rewarding are the portraits of the people he encounters in Alaska. He honors all by truly seeing them and reporting with compassion what he sees. Throw in some fascinating and tragic Native American History, some environmental history, some climate change, some geology, some huge earthquakes, some modern Alaskan political science, some tsunamis and some beer for dinner. Then you get the encounters with bears.
If any of this sounds interesting at all, then you should read this book right away.
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Painting a colorful backdrop to his own excursions, by using references and historical notes from the original, he touches on multiple cultural and political issues which are also shaping the Alaskan scenery - in an entertaining, yet serious way.
I really enjoyed this on many levels and the photo showing the retreat of one glacier over the century vividly brings into question the concept of climate change denial.
Fabulous armchair travel and I will be reading more of his work.