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For information on the Harriman Retraced Expedition e-mail: harriman2001@science.smith.edu |
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The daily journals from the
1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition provide us with some of the
most valuable primary documents about that trip. Unlike the
published sources, these day-to-day reflections from those
on the Elder give us a look at the ways in which personality
and coincidence affected the outcome of that expedition.
Without Frederick Dellenbaugh's highly-detailed writings,
for example, we would not know the origin of the rough map
that eventually led Harriman to the totems at the Tlingit
village of Cape Fox. Without John Burroughs's private notes,
we would not know how deeply sea-sick and homesick the
nature writer had been in Alaska. It is likely that the same
will hold true for the 2001 journals, produced by three
members of the Young Explorers Team. The more formal reports
will tell us about the science, nature and culture of
coastal Alaska in 2001, but Clare Baldwin tells us how
basketball served as a bridge between cultures, and how
tourists reacted when they found a gift shop on a tiny
island in the Bering Sea. Journals:
For information on the Harriman Retraced Expedition e-mail: harriman2001@science.smith.edu
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