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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

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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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