Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier Audiobook (Free)

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In the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a remarkable, wild, and wonder-filled journey into Alaska, America’s last frontier

In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman arranged a most uncommon summer voyage to the wilds of Alaska: He transformed a steamship right into a high end ‘floating university,’ populated by some of America’s best and brightest scientists and writers, including the anti-capitalist eco-prophet John Muir. Those aboard about Suggestion from the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Trip Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier encountered a land of immeasurable beauty and impending environmental calamity. More than a hundred years later, Alaska is still America’s most sublime wilderness, both the lure that draws one million visitors annually on Inside Passage cruises so that as a natural resources larder waiting to be raided. As ever, it continues to be a magnet for weirdos and dreamers.

Equipped with Dramamine and an industrial-strength mosquito online, Mark Adams models out to retrace the 1899 expedition. Touring town to town by drinking water, Adams endeavors three thousand miles north through Wrangell, Juneau, and Glacier Bay, after that continues west in to the colder and stranger parts of the Aleutians and the Arctic Circle. On the way, he encounters a large number of unusual characters (and a couple of very starving bears) and investigates how lessons discovered in 1899 might relate with Alaska’s current challenges in adapting towards the pressures of a changing environment and world.