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Glacier Bay: Chapter 1 The Gem of Alaska's Inside Passage

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Volume: Handbook 123 Date:1983

Overview of Glacier Bay

People are attracted to Glacier Bay, not only for its spectacular scenery in and around the bay, but also for the whales and other wildlife, the Fairweather Range, and the vast unspoiled coast. This book describes both the natural and human history of the Glacier Bay area.

Chapter 1 The Gem of Alaska's Inside Passage

Alaska's Glacier Bay confronts us with a mad jumble of paradoxes. Attempts to describe it juxtapose references to thunderous booming of ice and overwhelming silence. The landscape rests both brashly new and bedrock old, at once eternal and transitory, ...

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