The Shameless Diary of an Explorer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shameless Diary of an Explorer write by Robert Dunn. This book was released on 1907. The Shameless Diary of an Explorer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1903, aspiring journalist Robert Dunn joined an expedition attempting the first ascent of Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain in North America. Led by explorer Frederick Cook (who would later win infamy for faking the discovery of the North Pole), the climbers failed to conquer McKinley, but they did circumnavigate the great peak-an accomplishment not repeated until 1978. The trek also spawned a book unique in the literature of exploration: Dunn's frank, sardonic, no-holds-barred look at day-to-day existence on an Alaskan expedition. Before Dunn, most such accounts were sanitized and expurgated of anything unflattering. Dunn, however, a protege of the muckraker Lincoln Steffens, endeavored to report what he saw, with panache. And what Dunn reported was a journey rife with conflict, missed opportunity, incompetence, privation, and danger. By showing men reduced to their rawest state, the young journalist produced a compelling, insightful, and oddly amusing book that disturbed and riveted his contemporaries. As Hudson Stuck-the Episcopal archdeacon of the Yukon who completed the first ascent of Mt. McKinley in 1913-observed, "[Dunn's] book has a curious undeniable power, despite its brutal frankness. ... One is thankful, however, that it is unique in the literature of travel."
The Shameless Diary of an Explorer
The Shameless Diary of an Explorer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shameless Diary of an Explorer write by Robert Dunn. This book was released on 2014-08-07. The Shameless Diary of an Explorer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Is A New Release Of The Original 1907 Edition.
The Shameless Diary of an Explorer
The Shameless Diary of an Explorer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shameless Diary of an Explorer write by Robert Dunn. This book was released on 2013-09. The Shameless Diary of an Explorer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII LAST STRAWS July 8.--Sh-sh-sh! In two hours we made a large clear stream between high diorite cliffs--the Talushalitna! Every time I leaped behind a horse's pack in fording it, a bunch of them tore back to shore; so I crossed alone on foot, through a hundred tickliest yards of icy water. Then we covered endless meadows and one-pond swamps, purple with iris, golden with arnica. Jack's horses stampeded, and he flew into a passion. Now we slid down grassy benches, to a silty slew, where the bent willows were rustred with glacial mud--from river-floods! Glad omen! But never was reapproach to a river so vanishing: more sloughs and silt flats, a level spruce forest growing from white moss and roses; at last a lead along an endless, gouged drift-pile, and we heard shouts, and saw two tents on a gravel island in the middle of the brown river. The Professor, Miller, and two Siwashes, one big, one little, cavorted across to us in a long boat. Our leader first gravely shook my hand and smiled. "Hello, Dunn," said he (like that prig Stanley's icy, "Mr. Livingstone, I believe?" when he met the missionary in darkest Africa, thought I). "You've done excellently. We arrived here only this morning." Mosquito hats choked all of them. They blind and deafen, and if a man as God made him can't stand the 'skeets, he's no right up in this country. We started to ford, from the south shore to the north. The Bay Dunnage mare was mired in a quicksand and pulled out before we even unpacked and loaded the boat. It was the best place ever for putting in horses to swim, a cut bank they couldn't climb up on their side, a narrow current nearly all in one channel and shooting across diagonally to the other shore, where a long bar stretched below. I crossed to...
Shameless Diary of an Explorer
Shameless Diary of an Explorer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shameless Diary of an Explorer write by Dunn Robert. This book was released on 1901. Shameless Diary of an Explorer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
SHAMELESS DIARY OF AN EXPLORER
SHAMELESS DIARY OF AN EXPLORER - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook SHAMELESS DIARY OF AN EXPLORER write by Robert 1877-1955 Dunn. This book was released on 2016-08-28. SHAMELESS DIARY OF AN EXPLORER available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
