**The National Bestseller**

From the acclaimed, bestselling writer of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a remarkable, wild, and wonder-filled journey into Alaska, America’s last frontier

In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman structured a most unusual summer voyage towards the wilds of Alaska: He transformed a steamship into a luxury ‘floating university or college,’ filled by some of America’s best and brightest researchers and writers, including the anti-capitalist eco-prophet John Muir. Those aboard about Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Trip Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier experienced a property of immeasurable beauty and impending environmental calamity. Greater than a hundred years later, Alaska continues to be America’s most sublime wilderness, both the lure that pulls one million tourists annually on Inside Passage cruises and as a natural assets larder waiting to become raided. As ever, it remains a magnet for weirdos and dreamers.

Equipped with Dramamine and an industrial-strength mosquito world wide web, Mark Adams sets out to retrace the 1899 expedition. Traveling town to city by water, Adams ventures three thousand mls north through Wrangell, Juneau, and Glacier Bay, then continues west in to the colder and stranger parts of the Aleutians as well as the Arctic Group. Along the way, he encounters dozens of uncommon characters (and several very hungry bears) and investigates how lessons discovered in 1899 might relate with Alaska’s current problems in adapting to the pressures of a changing climate and world.