Wilderness : A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska by Rockwell Kent - 1996

Wesleyan University Press, 1996-05-15. Later prt. paperback. Used: Good.

Wesleyan University Press, 1996. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. A near fine copy of this attractive reissue of Kent's illustrated classic.

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Wesleyan University Press, 1996. Softcover. Very Good. 7x0x10. In Very Good+ condition. In August 1918 Rockwell Kent and his 9-year-old son settled into a primitive cabin on an island near Seward, Alaska. Kent, who during the next three decades became America's premier graphic artist, printmaker, and illustrator, was seeking time, peace, and solitude to work on his art and strengthen ties with his son. This reissue of the journal chronicling their 7-month odyssey describes what Kent called "an adventure of the spirit." He soon discovers how deeply he is "stirred by simple happenings in a quiet world" as man and boy face both the mundane and the magnificent: satisfaction in simple chores like woodchopping or baking; the appalling gloom of long and lonely winter nights; hours of silence while each works at his drawings; crystalline moonlight glancing off a frozen lake; killer whales cavorting in their bay. Richly illustrated by Kent's drawings, the journal vividly… Read More

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1996. Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Stiff color illus. wraps. xxxiv,204 pp., illus. New/as issued. 3rd ptg..

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

UsedVeryGood. Minor shelf wear

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark