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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 during the next three decades became Americas premier graphic artist, printmaker, and illustrator, was seeking time, peace, and solitude to work on his art and strengthen 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 Kents 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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Wilderness : A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska
author
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Kent, Rockwell.
publisher
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Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0819552933
print isbn13
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9780819552938
ebook isbn13
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9780585378855
language
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English
subject
Renard Island (Alaska)--Description and travel, Renard Island (Alaska) in art, Kent, Rockwell,--1882-1971, Artists--Alaska--Biography.
publication date
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1996
lcc
:
F912.R39K3 1996eb
ddc
:
917.98/4
subject
:
Renard Island (Alaska)--Description and travel, Renard Island (Alaska) in art, Kent, Rockwell,--1882-1971, Artists--Alaska--Biography.
Page i
Wilderness
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Wilderness
A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alasaka
By Rockwell Kent
Foreword By Doug Capra
Including extensive hitherto unpublished passages from the original journal
Page iv
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND publishes books under its own imprint and is the publisher for Brandeis University Press, Dartmouth College, Middlebury College Press, University of New Hampshire, Tufts University, and Wesleyan University Press.
Wesleyan University Press Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755
1996 by Wesleyan University Press Foreword 1996 by Doug Capra
Reprinted by arrangement with the Rockwell Kent Legacies from the 1970 edition published by the Wilderness Press. First published in 1920.
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2
Cover illustration: Rockwell Kent, Resurrection Bay, Alaska, 1965 from 1919 sketch. Oil on canvas, 71 111.8 cm. Gift of ATZ Travel, ERA Helicopters, Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hines, Bruce Kendall, and Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. Anchorage Museum of History and Art 73.3.1. Photo by Chris Arend.
Detail of Alaska Steamship Co. map on p. xxxiv originally published in 1917 by Poole Bros., Chicago. Courtesy of Doug Capra.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Kent, Rockwell, 18821971. Wilderness: a journal of quiet adventure in Alaska / by Rockwell Kent; Foreword by Doug Capra. p. cm. Originally published: Rev. ed. Los Angeles: Wilderness Press, 1970. With new foreword. ISBN 0-8195-5293-3 (alk. paper) 1. Renard Island (Alaska)Description and travel. 2. Renard Island (Alaska) in art. 3. Kent, Rockwell, 18821971. 4. ArtistsAlaskaBiography. I. Title. F912.R39K3 1996 917.98'4dc20 9545450
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To old L. M. Olson and young Rockwell Kent of Fox Island this journal is respectfully dedicated
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Contents
List of Illustrations
ix
Foreword
xi
Preface
xxv
Second Preface
xxvii
Third Preface
xxix
Introduction to Alaska Drawings
xxxi
I. Discovery
3
II. Arrival
9
III. Chores
31
IV. Winter
63
V. Waiting
79
VI. Excursion
93
VII. Home
99
VIII. Christmas
121
IX. New Year
139
X. Olson!
161
XI. Twilight
173
The Mad Hermit
195
Page ix
Illustrations
''Zarathustra himself led the ugliest man by the hand, in order to show him his night-world and the great round moon and the silvery waterfalls nigh unto his cave"
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