Passage to Juneau
a sea and its meanings
by Jonathan Raban
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The Inside Passage from Puget Sound to Alaska is winding, turbulent, and deep--an ancient, thousand-mile-long sea route, rich in dangerous whirlpools, eddies, rips, and races. Here flourished the canoe culture of the Northwest Indians, with their fantastic painted masks and complex iconography and their stories of malign submarine gods and monsters. The unhappy British ship Discovery, captained by George Vancouver, came through these open reaches and narrow chasms in 1792. The early explorers were quickly followed by fur traders, settlers, missionaries, anthropologists, fishermen, and tourists, each with their own designs on this intricate and haunted sea.
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Art, Description and travel, Indians of North America, Travel, History, Romanticism, FolkloreTimes
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Passage to Juneau: a sea and its meanings
1999, Pantheon Books
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Passage to Juneau: a sea and its meanings
1999, Pantheon Books
in English
- 1st ed.
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