Wilderness, A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Wilderness, A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska, by Rockwell Kent
WILDERNESS A JOURNAL OF QUIET ADVENTURE IN ALASKA BY ROCKWELL KENT
ROCKWELL ALASKA MCMXVIII
WITH DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR AND AN INTRODUCTION BY DOROTHY CANFIELD
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1920
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY ROCKWELL KENT PLATES ENGRAVED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF WILLIAM G. WATT
THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, NEW YORK
To old L. M. Olson and young Rockwell Kent of Fox Island this journal is respectfully dedicated
The author acknowledges the courtesy of the owners of his drawings in permitting their reproduction in this book: MRS. ERNEST I. WHITE ROBERT NICHOLS STEPHEN C. CLARK MRS. PAYNE THOMPSON MRS. JOSEPH FLANNERY MRS. J. S. MORGAN, JR. DR. ARNOLD KLEBS HENRY S. CHURCHILL MRS. PERCY W. DARBYSHIRE MRS. MEREDITH HARE PAUL MANSHIP MRS. VALENTINE WINTERS HENRY NEWMAN HUNT DIEDERICH PURCELL JONES M. KNOEDLER AND COMPANY ALBERT STERNER MARIE STERNER
Had jesting Pilate asked “What is Art?” he would have waited quite as many centuries for an answer as he has for the answer to his question about Truth. For art to the artist, and art to the rest of us, are two very different things. Art to the artist is quite simply Life, his life, of which he has an amplitude and intensity unknown to us. What he does for us is to thrill us awake to the amplitude and intensity of all life, our own included. And this is a miracle for which we can never be thankful enough.
This, at least, is what Rockwell Kent’s Alaska drawings and Alaska journal do for me; they take me away from that tired absorption in things of little import which makes up most of our human life and make me see, not an unreal world of romantic illusion, that fool’s pleasure given by the second-rate artist, but the real wonder-world in which I live and have always lived. They make me see suddenly that there is a vast deal more in the world than embittering and anxious preoccupations, that much of it is fine, much is comforting, much awe-inspiring, much profoundly tragic, and all of it makes up a whole so vast that no living organism need feel cramped.
Rockwell Kent
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INTRODUCTION
PREFACE
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
September fourteenth.
Wednesday, September twenty-fifth.
Thursday, September twenty-sixth.
Friday, September twenty-seventh.
Saturday, September twenty-eighth.
Sunday, September twenty-ninth.
Monday, September thirtieth.
Tuesday, October first.
Wednesday, October second.
Thursday, October third.
Friday, October fourth.
Saturday, October fifth.
Monday, October seventh.
Tuesday, October eighth.
Wednesday, October ninth
Thursday, October tenth.
Friday, October eleventh.
Saturday, October twelfth.
Sunday, October thirteenth.
Tuesday, October fifteenth.
Thursday, October seventeenth.
Friday, October eighteenth.
Saturday, October nineteenth.
Sunday, October twentieth.
Monday, October twenty-first.
Sunday, November third.
Thursday, November seventh.
Friday, November eighth.
Thursday, November fourteenth.
Saturday, November sixteenth.
Sunday, November seventeenth.
Monday, November eighteenth.
Tuesday, November nineteenth.
Wednesday, November twentieth.
Friday, November twenty-second.
Saturday, November twenty-third.
Sunday, November twenty-fourth.
Monday, November twenty-fifth.
Tuesday, November twenty-sixth.
Wednesday, November twenty-seventh.
Thursday, November twenty-eighth.
Friday, November twenty-ninth.
Thursday, December fifth.
Thursday, December fifth (Continued).
Friday, December sixth.
Saturday, December seventh.
Sunday, December eighth.
Monday, December ninth.
Wednesday, December eleventh.
Friday, December thirteenth.
Saturday, December fourteenth.
Sunday, December fifteenth.
Tuesday, December seventeenth.
Wednesday, December eighteenth.
Thursday, December nineteenth.
Friday, December twentieth.
Sunday, December twenty-second.
Monday, December twenty-third.
Christmas Eve!
Christmas Day on Fox Island.
Saturday, December twenty-eighth.
Sunday, December twenty-ninth.
Monday, December thirtieth.
Sunday, January fifth.
Monday, January sixth.
Wednesday, January eighth.
Friday, January tenth.
Monday, January thirteenth.
Wednesday, January fifteenth.
Thursday, January sixteenth.
Saturday, January eighteenth.
Tuesday, January twenty-first.
Thursday, January twenty-third.
Saturday, January twenty-fifth.
Sunday, January twenty-sixth.
Tuesday, January twenty-eighth.
Wednesday, January twenty-ninth.
Thursday, January thirtieth.
Saturday, February first.
Sunday, February second.
Monday, February third.
Tuesday, February fourth.
Wednesday, February fifth.
Friday, February seventh.
Saturday, February eighth.
Monday, February tenth.
Friday, February fourteenth.
Monday, February seventeenth.
Tuesday, February eighteenth.
Wednesday, February nineteenth.
Thursday, February twentieth.
Sunday, February twenty-third.
Wednesday, February twenty-sixth.
Monday, March third.
Tuesday, March fourth.
Thursday, March sixth.
Friday, March seventh.
Monday, March tenth.
Tuesday, March eleventh.
Thursday, March thirteenth.
Sunday, March sixteenth.
Tuesday, March eighteenth.
