Sleep Story 269 - Alaska
Bore You To Sleep - Sleep Stories for Adults
Teddy
4.5 • 547 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
"Welcome to tonight's episode featuring excerpts from 'Travels in Alaska' by the renowned historical figure, John Muir. In this 1879 expedition to Alaska, Muir's vivid accounts of his journey unfold, promising a tranquil listening experience to ease you into a peaceful slumber.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Bore You to Sleep podcast, the podcast that will hopefully help you get to sleep. |
| 0:15.7 | I am going to read an open source book, one that is not particularly interesting, but one that is |
| 0:23.3 | hopefully boring enough to get you to sleep. Tonight's readings come from travels in Alaska. |
| 0:33.6 | It was written by one of my favorite figures in history, John Muir, and details his trip of 1879 |
| 0:42.7 | to Alaska. |
| 0:45.1 | I'd like to thank you for listening to the podcast, and I hope it helps you fall asleep. |
| 0:52.2 | My goal is to help people everywhere, get a good night's rest, and I hope it |
| 0:57.7 | helps you too. Before you start feeling drowsy, it would be amazing if you're able to leave a comment |
| 1:05.7 | and rating in your podcast app. It really does help me reach more people who need a good night's rest. |
| 1:13.8 | You can also say hello or support the podcast at bore you to sleep.com. |
| 1:20.8 | In the meantime, lie back, relax and enjoy the readings. |
| 1:27.1 | Part 1 The trip of 1879 travels in Alaska chapter 1 |
| 1:35.8 | Puget Sound and British Columbia after 11 years of study and exploration in the Sierra Nevada of California and the mountain ranges of the Great Basin, |
| 1:51.0 | studying in particular their glaciers, forests and wildlife, above all their ancient glaciers and the influence they exerted in sculpturing the rocks over which they passed with tremendous pressure, making new landscapes, scenery and beauty, which so mysteriously influence every human being, and to some extent all life. |
| 2:21.4 | I was anxious to gain some knowledge of the regions to the northward about Puget Sound and Alaska. |
| 2:30.7 | With this grand object in view, I left San Francisco in May 1879 on the steamer Dakota, without any definite plan, as with the exception of a few of the Oregon Peaks and their forests, all the wild north, was new to me. |
| 2:53.0 | To the mountaineer, a sea voyage is grand, inspiring, restful change. |
| 3:00.4 | For forests and plains with their flowers and fruits, we have new scenery, new life of every sort, waterhills and dales in eternal, visible |
| 3:13.2 | motion for rock waves, types of permanence. It was curious to note how suddenly eager, |
| 3:23.2 | countenances of the passengers were darkened as soon as the good ship |
| 3:29.0 | passed through the Golden Gate and began to heave on the waves of the open ocean. |
| 3:37.2 | The crowded deck was speedily deserted on account of seasickness. |
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