Description: In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage. By Robert Campbell. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2007. First edition. Softcover. 348 pages. Illustrated with numerous historic B/W photos, maps. Measures 9" x 6". Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up the Pacific coast from Puget Sound to Icy Strait. Both the famous--including wilderness advocate John Muir, landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, and photographers Eadweard Muybridge and Edward Curtis--and the long forgotten--a gay ex-sailor, a former society reporter, an African explorer, and a neurasthenic Methodist minister--returned with fascinating accounts of their Alaskan journeys, becoming advance men and women for an expanding United States. In Darkest Alaska explores the popular images conjured by these travelers tales, as well as their influence on the broader society. Drawing on lively firsthand accounts, archival photographs, maps, and other ephemera of the day, historian Robert Campbell chronicles how Gilded Age sightseers were inspired by Alaska's bounty of evolutionary treasures, tribal artifacts, geological riches, and novel thrills to produce a wealth of highly imaginative reportage about the territory. By portraying the territory as a Last West ripe for American conquest, tourists helped pave the way for settlement and exploitation. CONDITION: Book is in near fine condition. Intact. Pages are clean & bright. No loose or musty pages. Covers are clean & solid. Slight corner/edge wear. Not ex-library. From a smoke free home. PAYMENT: I accept credit card payments through PayPal. Please be sure to preview my other books and ephemera listed for auction & sale. I gladly combine purchases into one shipment to save you money on postage. SHIPPING: Buyer pays $4.00 for USPS Media Mail delivery to any location in the U.S.A. USPS Priority Mail is available at a higher cost. I use delivery confirmation. Note: Worldwide delivery to all other countries outside the U.S.A. will cost $23.95 for USPS Priority Mail International, except Canada which will cost $19.95. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Thank You.
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