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Wilderness: A Journal Of Quiet Adventure In Alaska

by Rockwell Kent

The illustrator and author Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)wrote and illustrated this description of a trip to Alaska with his eldest son. Though an audiobook listener cannot, of course, see Kent's illustrations, the artist's eye is evident throughout the text. Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska — Memoir of the fall and winter of 1918/19 painting and exploring with his eldest son – also Rockwell – on Fox Island in Resurrection Bay, Alaska (1920).

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English

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English

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1920

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Rockwell Kent

United states

Rockwell Kent  was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager. Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York. Kent was of English descent. He lived much...

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