The New Eldorado: A Summer Journey to Alaska


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In "The New Eldorado: A Summer Journey to Alaska" by Maturin M. Ballou, readers are taken on an insightful exploration of the Alaskan frontier. Through engaging and vivid descriptions, Ballou presents a comprehensive account of the landscapes, cultures, and experiences he encounters during his journey, making this book a valuable historical and travelogue piece. Written in a descriptive and engaging style, the book captures the essence of the Alaskan wilderness and its inhabitants, offering readers a glimpse into a world filled with beauty and challenges. Set within the context of the late 19th century, this book sheds light on the allure of Alaska during the Gold Rush era. This literary work is a captivating blend of travel writing, historical documentation, and personal reflection, making it an essential read for those interested in the history of the American West. Maturin M. Ballou's extensive travel experience and keen eye for detail are evident in his evocative writing, making him a respected and knowledgeable voice on the subject of Alaska. As a seasoned travel writer and journalist, Ballou's genuine passion for exploration and discovery shines through in this book, offering readers a unique perspective on the Alaskan frontier. I highly recommend "The New Eldorado: A Summer Journey to Alaska" to those seeking a captivating blend of history, travel, and adventure in the Last Frontier.




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This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counter narrative to the nation’s romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention. Prior to the professionalization of academic disciplines, the reading public gained much of its knowledge about the world from travel writing. Travel writers found a wide and respectful audience for their reports on history, geography, and the natural world, in addition to reporting on aboriginal cultures before the advent of anthropology as a discipline. Although in recent decades western historians have paid little attention to travel writing, Wrobel demonstrates that this genre in fact offers an important and rich understanding of the American West—one that extends and complicates a simple reading of the West that promotes the notions of Manifest Destiny or American exceptionalism. Wrobel finds counterpoints to the mythic West of the nineteenth century in such varied accounts as George Catlin’s Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium (1852), Richard Francis Burton’s The City of the Saints (1861), and Mark Twain’s Following the Equator (1897), reminders of the messy and contradictory world that people navigated in the past much as they do in the present. His book is a testament to the instructive ways in which the best travel writers have represented the West.




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