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Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier
By Adams, Mark
- ISBN
- 9781101985106 9781101985113
- Publisher
- Penguin
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Reviewed on April 1, 2018 | Social Sciences
In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a summer voyage into wild Alaska. He converted a steamship into a luxury "floating university," sailing north with some of America's best-known scientists and writers, including Sierra Club founder John Muir, who'd visited Alaska several times before and was considered an expert on its glaciers but was initially uncertain about joining Harriman owing to their political diff...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
