Description
Title: Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska
Author: Rockwell Kent
Publisher: The Modern Library, Publishers, New York
Published: 1930
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 243
Catalogs: Nature, Art, Letters
: Illustrated. Plum-brown flexible cloth binding with gilt text on spine and publisher’s colophon on front board. Spine and edges are faded, and cloth is slightly wrinkled. Some scuffing. Pages stamped on fore-edge and on page v: “sold at retail by Macy’s.” Pastedowns are maps drawn by Kent of the entrance to Resurrection Bay, Alaska. Flyleaf damaged at top corner. First Modern Library edition, with a new preface by the author. No dust-jacket. First published in 1920. Contains 46 illustrations. Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), born in Tarrytown, New York, was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, and adventurer. He studied art with Arthur Wesley Dow and William Merritt Chase. A transcendentalist and mystic in the tradition of Thoreau and Emerson, Kent found inspiration in the austerity and stark beauty of wilderness. In the late summer of 1918, Kent and his nine-year-old son ventured to the American frontier of Alaska. Wilderness, the first of Kent’s several adventure memoirs, is an edited and illustrated compilation of his letters home. The New Statesman described Wilderness as “easily the most remarkable book to come out of America since Leaves of Grass was published.” Hardcover, good condition. 243 page, 12mo.
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