Alaska Days with John Muir

In the summer of 1879 a young scholar arrives at the remote Fort Wrangell, Alaska, to begin a tentative civilizing mission among the Tlingit. His world soon expands when a lanky, red‑haired naturalist steps off a steamboat—John Muir, the famed explorer whose keen eyes seem to drink the landscape whole. Their handshake sparks a mentorship that turns the outsized wilderness into a classroom of stone, ice, and sky.

Together they charter a modest steamer, the Cassiar, and glide down the snaking Stickeen River, threading through towering glaciers and cedar‑lined canyons. Muir’s reverent verses and sharp observations illuminate the raw beauty of thunderous bays, emerald islands and crystal‑capped peaks, while the narrator learns to read the language of wind‑carved rock. Listeners are invited to share the awe of those first Alaskan days, when every sunrise felt like a sermon and every silence hummed with the pulse of the untouched north.