Format: Paperback
Pages: 237
ISBN: 9780819552938
Pub Date: 26 Jul 1996
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Illustrations: 102 drawings. 5 photos. End-paper map.
Description:
In August 1918 Rockwell Kent and his 9-year-old son settled into a primitive cabin on an island near Seward, Alaska. Kent, who during the next three decades became America's premier graphic artist, printmaker, and illustrator, was seeking time, peace, and solitude to work on his art and strengthen ties with his son. This reissue of the journal chronicling their 7-month odyssey describes what Kent called "an adventure of the spirit.