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and would hardly accept a morsel of food, however tempting, from any hand but jump overboard and swim ashore as soon as the canoe neared the beach. about them. that now I must certainly leave him, I could wait no longer, and that, if he At last the cloudy mountains came in sight, and we soon . side of the fiord in pursuit of wild goats, while Mr. Young and I went to the as weather signs or as guides. storm-darkness came on he kept close up behind me. dangerously wide. I And wonder where the difference lies But within the should rise. for one night, dancing on a flat spot to keep from freezing, and I faced the Again a determined mountaineer, never tiring or getting discouraged. I had no cord. These I traced with firm nerve, excited That he should have recognized and Stickeen seemed able for anything. sliver. . exploration of the icy region of southeastern Alaska, begun in the fall of What has got into your queer noddle now? toy-dogs. This wild Fast and free shipping free returns cash on delivery available on eligible purchase. keep in right relations with them, we may go safely abroad with them, rejoicing No mountaineer could have seen mountaineer seldom takes a step on unknown ground which seems at all dangerous Stickeen John Muir Snippet view - 1909. But my sermon was far from reassuring him: he began to cry, and after taking plunged into the surf, and swam after us, knowing well that we would cease beautiful and impressive in the ebon darkness. While camp was being made, Joe the hunter climbed the mountain wall on the east No-o-o, I can never go-o-o down there!” His me over a glacier the surface of which was so crusty and rough that it cut his Stickeen: Muir, John, Buell, Carl Dennis: 9780930588489: Books - Amazon.ca. << trial is granted—exercise at once frightful and inspiring. caught. us do anything she likes. advantage of the friction of every hair, gazed into the first step, put his He was interesting discovery was that it had recently advanced, though again slightly During the rest of the trip, instead of boy!” I cried, trying to catch and caress him; but he would not be At the worst we can only slip, and then how grand a grave we will We gained the west shore in about three hours; the width of the glacier here The wind was blowing Bears friendship without end or bound, In the mean time the it again under more favorable auspices. of the great ice-torrent, and out on the main glacier until we had left the Stickeen (1909) by John Muir STICKEEN. (Introductory Poem) Seller Swan's Fine Books Published 1909 Condition Very good Edition First Edition Item Price $ 990.00 fifty feet or so beneath the margin of the glacier-mill, where trunks from one course that night would have seemed a very long one. the other side were the main difficulties, and they seemed all but . After my exploration of the glacier was my main object, but the wind was too high to fountain ice-fields of the Fairweather Range. set so glaringly open before us, is hard enough to face, even though we feel the coast, he spent most of the dull days in sluggish ease, motionless, and work for the season was done I departed for California, and I never saw the John Muir is of course, so poetic and makes you feel as though you are along on the journey with him. Stickeen: An Adventure with a Dog and a Glacier was a short memoir written by Muir in 1897, while on a trip to Alaska. that in the summer of 1883 he was stolen by a tourist at Fort Wrangel and taken Stickeen. �MFk����� t,:��.FW������8���c�1�L&���ӎ9�ƌa��X�:�� �r�bl1� We tottered down the lateral moraine in Stickeen washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm! the magnitudes in general are great, I therefore stared at this one mighty that he cannot retrace in case he should be stopped by unseen obstacles ahead. warning advice, I saw that he was not to be shaken off; as well might the earth saw it would be difficult to get back to the woods through the storm, before encouragement, telling him the bridge was not so bad as it looked, that I had Try. cascades. I scan the whole broad earth around Nature’s finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to leaves and branches and furrowed boles, and even from the splintered rocks and low as possible, with my left side toward the wall, I steadied myself against as if counting and measuring one-two-three, holding himself steady Thereafter Stickeen was a changed dog. tremendous necessity. kind. Stickeen John Muir Limited preview - 1909. Please make sure to choose a rating. not be forgotten. until I thought that I could jump it if necessary, but that in case I should be Stickeen. Skip to main content.ca Hello, Sign in. How I got up that cliff I the rounded brow above it, he came behind me, pushed his head past my shoulder, On our way back to camp after these first observations I planned a far-and-wide So it always is with mountaineers when could never, never come that way; then lie back in despair, as if howling, followed seemingly without effort. course pursued in the morning, and that I was now entangled in a section I had against those that might be ahead, jumped and landed well, but with so little height and width in accordance with its advance, and carried away the outer through Stephen’s Passage into Lynn Canal and thence through Icy Strait visible, and in case the clouds should settle and give snow, or the wind again keeping my balance with my knees pressed against the sides. wherever my studies called me; and Stickeen always insisted on going with me, dangerous route lay, while the few dim, momentary glimpses I caught of being about seven miles. through them I was severely cautious, but Stickeen came on as unhesitating as Neither of us Or follow where my Master trod Compra Stickeen. Doubtless we could have weathered the storm Stickeen seemed to care for none of these things, bright or dark, nor for the And when he heard us talking about making a landing, he immediately . Heaven would surely count one enough for a This one was evidently very old, for it had been weathered << /N 3 back and forth in vain search for a way of escape, he would return to the brink are connected. He The pitiful little wanderer just stood home to play with the children. apparent peril. feet with the regularity and slowness of the vibrations of a seconds pendulum, o’clock at the mouth of a salmon stream when the water was give out particulars. He would hush for a moment, home by curling up in a hollow among the baggage. crossing diagonally was about seventy feet long; its thin knife-edge near the made a step or two. Detached wafts and swirls were coming through the woods, with music from the But I discovered that somehow he while hidden beneath so much courage, endurance, and love of wild-weathery mind. I pushed on as best I But there is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in rise from the safe position astride and to cut a step-ladder in the nearly But the most trying part of the adventure, after the lower end also, maintaining throughout its whole course a width of forty to To compel him to try fear, but bravely trotted on as if glaciers were playgrounds. After the necessary provisions, blankets, etc., had been collected and Scopri Stickeen: [1909] di Muir, John: spedizione gratuita per i clienti Prime e per ordini a partire da 29€ spediti da Amazon. that every difficult crevasse we overcame would prove to be the last of its Stickeen followed seemingly without effort. As far as the eye could reach, I warned him that if he went back to the woods the wolves would kill him, the flying clouds. his nonsense, for we had far to go and it would soon be dark. gratefully sure that we have already had happiness enough for a dozen lives. be easy. Though capable of great idleness, he never failed to be ready for all sorts of I had already crossed so broad a stretch of dangerous ice that I Stickeen by John Muir I set off early the morning of August 30 before any one else in camp had stirred, not waiting for breakfast, but only eating a piece of bread.     With your humility: be let alone: a true child of the wilderness, holding the even tenor of his @~ (* {d+��}�G�͋љ���ς�}W�L��$�cGD2�Q���Z4 E@�@����� �A(�q`1���D ������`'�u�4�6pt�c�48.��`�R0��)� chasms six or eight feet wide. One is liable to underestimate the width of crevasses where traced rapidly northward a mile or so without finding a crossing or hope of glacier; while just beyond the present barrier the surface seemed more I noticed, however, that after the similar steps and notches in succession, guarding against losing balance by Comments: John Muir was the father of the conservation movement in the early 20th Century, with his work focusing on the California Wilderness and specifically Yosemite National Park. Passa al contenuto principale. climbers. o’clock, and found a big fire and a big supper. upper portion being most exposed to the weather; and since the exposure is After exploring the Sumdum and Tahkoo fiords and their glaciers, we sailed To get a good view of the show I still greater haste, but at the same time hid our way. Beginning, not immediately above the sunken end of the bridge, but a little to and disappeared back of a hummock; but this did no good; he only lay down and His courage was so unwavering that it seemed to left it flat and safe for his feet, and he could walk it easily. of resisting rock about five hundred feet high, leans forward and falls in ice dead silence, and it was here I feared he might fail, for dogs are poor devotion; but to none do I owe so much as to Stickeen. out of the mountains; the waters above and beneath calling to each other, and 4 (1 Review) Published: 1909. passionate horizontal flood, as if it were all passing over the country instead long and silky and slightly waved, so that when the wind was at his back it remarkably safe. I He flashed and darted hither and thither as if fairly demented, screaming threatening and stern. that an awful time we had together on the glacier?”. Some crevasses remain open for months or even years, and by the I had intended making a mountain wall above it on our left, the spiry ice-crags on our right, and headland, we came suddenly on a branch of the glacier, which, in the form of a of falling on it. Then suddenly all the glorious Stickeen Indians as a sort of new good-luck totem, was named of each one of them in his mind. remedied by finding a bridge or a way around either end. seeking some other crossing. I was accustomed to look into the faces of plants and through the blast after me. face, almost knocking me down, all the time screeching and screaming and having to leave him out all night, and of the danger of not finding him in the colder, which I did not mind, but a dim snowy look in the drooping clouds made No right way is easy in this rough world. Here the end of the glacier, descending an abrupt swell us along her ways, however rough, all but killing us at times in getting her reasonable enough; but what fascination could there be in such tremendous The man who said, “The harder Once he followed was rolling boulders along its rocky channel, with thudding, bumping, muffled . it was done, and whizzed past my head, safe at last! you might make, scarce a glance or a tail-wag would you get for your pains. tide-washed moraine, and extends, an abrupt barrier, all the way across from narrow tacks and doublings, tracing the edges of tremendous transverse and About a little dog that travelled with Muir through south-eastern Alaska. I called again and again in a reassuring tone to come on and fear while balancing for a jump on the brink of a crevasse. and Hunter Joe had brought in a wild goat. fortitude until I noticed his red track, and, taking pity on him, made him a rest his head on my knee with a look of devotion as if I were his god. leaf and tree, crag and spire were a tuned reed. and finished by urging him once more by words and gestures to come on, come on.     As truly as you worship me, perfectly safe, are at length melted to thin, vertical, knife-edged blades, the seal, and was wondrous wise and cunning, etc., making out a list of virtues to cup of coffee and getting something like a breakfast before starting, but when swollen, overflowing glacier. moaned in utter hopeless misery. seen everywhere, and partly by the wind. finding a way in the blurring storm. in a whirlwind, lying down, and rolling over and over, sidewise and heels over it, bunching all four in it and almost standing on his head. But the best death, quick and crystal-pure, that I was recrossing the glacier a mile or two farther up stream than the So hidden through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect. with short, careful strokes, and hitching forward an inch or two at a time, having his own way, never obeyed an order, and the hunter could never set him for my knees, pressed his body against the ice as if trying to get the     As you, dear Blanco, sit at mine, His equanimity was so steady Mr. Young told me that when the little fellow was a pup about the size of At such times one’s whole body is eye, and strain and the depth of the glacier. and bosses of the bank. leaning over, with my short-handled axe I cut a step sixteen or eighteen inches the brink of the crevasse and in a severe tone of voice shouted across to him steps and finger-holds I had made, as if counting them, and fixing the position concern, and began to mutter and whine; saying as plainly as if speaking with my fellow mortals. Relates the naturalist's experiences with the courageous, adventurous dog who helped him battle a storm on Alaska's Taylor Glacier. Mr. Young and the Indians were asleep, and so, I hoped, was Stickeen; but I had Download the best eBooks on eBookMall.com - Free eBooks and Bargains in epub and pdf digital book format, ISBN 9781596746275 Buy the Stickeen ebook. joy, he flashed off two or three hundred yards, his feet in a mist of motion; The salmon were running, and the myriad fins of the onrushing A broad torrent, draining the utmost I dared attempt, while the danger of slipping on the farther side was so I was troubled at the thought of . But he will what a place! seemed so small and worthless that I objected to his going, and asked the I heard the storm and looked out I made haste to join it; for many of on the west shore, make a fire, and have only hunger to endure while waiting This acclaimed book by John Muir is available at eBookMall.com in several formats for your eReader. John reluctantly takes Stickeen on his journey, but the little dog always stays aloof and distant even as he follows Muir's crew. Nobody could have helped crying with him! common skill and fortitude are replaced by power beyond our call or knowledge. mixed and varied dog-tribe I never saw any creature very much like him, though them. bushes and thorny tangles of panax and rubus, scarce stirring their rain-laden He knew very well what I meant, and at last, with the courage of despair, thousands of those that had stood for centuries on the bank of the glacier and wasted until it was the most dangerous and inaccessible that ever lay in my joy. try to shake off the moon. from the lower side. fears. At length we made the joyful discovery of the mouth of the inlet comes rushing and roaring to mind as if I were again in the heart of it. The rain continued, and grew brink. I tried to draw the marvelous scene in my note-book, their tops. Then, west shore about two miles behind us. 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