As glaciers disappear in Alaska, the rest of the world's ice follows
As glaciers disappear in Alaska, the rest of the world’s ice follows Jonathan Watts “If glaciers are what you are after, that’s the place for you.” The speaker was an prospector passing through Fort Wrangell, Alaska, in 1879. The subject was a remote bay, flanked by rugged walls of ice and filled with floating bergs. The listener was the Scottish-American environmental philosopher John Muir, who needed no further encouragement to set out in a canoe soon after with a large stock of provisions, blankets and a determination to visit the frozen wonderland. It was October. ...
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