Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska_Including Extensive Hitherto Unpublished Passages from the Original Journal

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In August 1918 Rockwell Kent and his 9-year-old son settled into a primitive cabin on an island near Seward, Alaska. Kent, who all through the next three decades became The us’s premier graphic artist, printmaker, and illustrator, used to be in search of time, peace, and solitude to work on his art and give a boost to ties with his son. This reissue of the journal chronicling their 7-month odyssey describes what Kent known as “an adventure of the spirit.” He soon discovers how deeply he’s “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 whilst each and every 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 — on the same time that it celebrates a wilderness now nearly lost to us.

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