Author: John MuirPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
Author: John MuirJohn Muir
Author: John MuirPublisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9780906371343
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Features the eight influential books in which John Muir reflects on the beauty of America's wilderness and fights for their protection.
John Muir
Author: John MuirPublisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9780898864632
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Contains portions of Muir's autobiography, letters, his lesser known books, and essays
The Writings of John Muir: Our national parks
Author: John MuirSelected Writings of John Muir
Author: John MuirPublisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 1101907622
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
A new collection of the seminal writings of America's first naturalist and the founder of the modern conservation movement. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY ORIGINAL. This volume of John Muir's selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American wilderness. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is Muir's account of his childhood on a Wisconsin farm, where his interest in nature was first piqued; in The Mountains of California, The Yosemite, and Travels in Alaska, we follow him on long journeys into stunning mountain ranges and valleys, where he records native flora and fauna and finds proof of his theories of the effect of glaciers on landscape formation. These four full-length works--along with a selection of important essays--helped galvanize American naturalists, and led to the founding of the Sierra Club and several national parks. In these pages, written with meticulous thoroughness and an impassioned lyricism, we witness Muir's awakening to the incredible beauty of our planet, and the honing of an eye turned as acutely toward the scientific as the spiritual.
Our National Parks
Author: John MuirPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447488385
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
First published in 1901, “Our National Parks” is a fantastic guide to the wild mountain forest reservations and national parks of the United States, exploring their beauty and usefulness in an attempt to encourage contemporary readers to go out and enjoy the natural wonders of North America. John Muir (1838–1914) was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, author, and glaciologist who famously fought to preserve wilderness in the United States of America. Muir's work describing his adventures in nature have been read by millions the world over and his activism has helped to conserve such important places of natural beauty as the Yosemite Valley and Sequoia National Park in America. Contents include: “The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West”, “The Yellowstone National Park”, “The Yosemite National Park”, “The Forests of the Yosemite Park”, “The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park”, “Among the Animals of the Yosemite”, “Among the Birds of the Yosemite”, “The Fountains and Streams of the Yosemite National Park”, etc. Other notable works by this author include: “My First Summer in the Sierra” (1911), “Steep Trails” (1918), and “The Story of My Boyhood and Youth” (1913). A Thousand Fields is republishing this classic book now complete with a biographical sketch of the author.
John Muir
Author: My First Summer in the Sierra
Author: John MuirPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become a famed conservationist when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, not long after the Civil War. He was so captivated by what he saw that he decided to devote his life to the glorification and preservation of this magnificent wilderness. "My First Summer in the Sierra," whose heart is the diary Muir kept while tending sheep in Yosemite country, enticed thousands of Americans to visit this magical place, and resounds with Muir's regard for the "divine, enduring, unwasteable wealth" of the natural world. A classic of environmental literature, "My First Summer in the Sierra" continues to inspire readers to seek out such places for themselves and make them their own.
A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf
Author: John MuirPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
/MUIR JOHN Originally published in 1916, this book is largely comprised of lightly edited diary entries Muir made during his memorable 1867 trek from Kentucky to Florida. Mixing deft observations of the human condition with lyrical responses to the beauties of the natural world, Muir creates his own stirring "song of the Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Essential Muir
Author: John MuirPublisher: Heyday Books
ISBN: 9781597145541
Category : Conservationists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In this revised edition of Essential Muir, Muir's selected writings include those that show his ecological vision without ignoring his racism, providing a more complete portrait of the man"--