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Author : John Muir
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618127511
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wilderness World of John Muir written by John Muir and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Muir's extraordinary vision of America comes to life in these fascinating selections from his personal journals. As a conservationist, John Muir traveled through most of the American wilderness alone and on foot, without a gun or a sleeping bag. In 1903, while on a three-day camping trip with President Theodore Roosevelt, he convinced the president of the importance of a national conservation program, and he is widely recognized for saving the Grand Canyon and Arizona's Petrified Forest. Muir's writing, based on journals he kept throughout his life, gives our generation a picture of an America still wild and unsettled only one hundred years ago. In The Wildernesss World of John Muir Edwin Way Teale has selected the best of Muir's writing from all of his major works--including My First Summer in the Sierra and Travels in Alaska--to provide a singular collection that provides to be "magnificent, thrilling, exciting, breathtaking, and awe-inspiring" (Kirkus Reviews).

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wilderness World of John Muir written by John Muir and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1954 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections from each of John Muir's published books.

Author : John Muir
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1193 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wilderness Essays written by John Muir and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 1193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously edited John Muir collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Picturesque California The Mountains of California Our National Parks My First Summer in the Sierra The Yosemite Travels in Alaska Stickeen: The Story of a Dog The Cruise of the Corwin A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf Steep Trails Studies in Sierra The National Parks and Forest Reservations Save the Redwoods Snow-storm on Mount Shasta Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park A Rival of the Yosemite The Treasures of the Yosemite Yosemite Glaciers Yosemite in Winter Yosemite in Spring Edward Henry Harriman Edward Taylor Parsons The Hetch Hetchy Valley The Grand Cañon of the Colorado

Author : Linnie Marsh Wolfe
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir written by Linnie Marsh Wolfe and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1945, this biography won the Pulitzer Prize in 1946. Its author worked for twenty-two years on John Muir, including as secretary of the John Muir Association and as editor of Muir’s unpublished papers. She interviewed many family members and people who knew and worked with John Muir to produce this account of Muir’s life. She recounts Muir’s Scottish origins, his early years in the harsh Wisconsin wilderness, his remarkable mechanical aptitude and interest in botany and geology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison where he spent two and a half years before traveling to the Canadian wilderness, and then to California where he spent most of his life. “[A] well-balanced, informative and rewarding biography.” — Kirkus Reviews “Into this biography of John Muir, Mrs. Wolfe has packed an amazing amount of factual information which she has illuminated with a sober critical judgment that gives us a convincing portrait of the whole man.” — Francis P. Farquhar, Pacific Historical Review “Linnie Marsh Wolfe almost singlehandedly restored John Muir to the respectability and stature he always deserved... [Son of the Wilderness] should be on the reference shelves of anyone seriously interested in American environmental history.” — John Opie, Environmental History Review “[A]n interesting personal biography... [Wolfe] creates Muir as a living personality — mystical but athletic, enthusiastic about nature but socially abrupt — a sort of middle-aged Thoreau.” — Alexander Kern, Journal of American History “By immersing herself in Muir’s life, for example, by soaking in his correspondence and journals, [Wolfe] was able to craft what amounts to a first-person narrative, the autobiography he never wrote for himself.” — Char Miller, John Muir Newsletter

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 9780906371343
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Muir written by John Muir and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the eight influential books in which John Muir reflects on the beauty of America's wilderness and fights for their protection.

Author : Donald Worster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199782245
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Passion for Nature written by Donald Worster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive biography traces the life of John Muir from his boyhood in Scotland up to his death on the eve of World War I and offers important insights into the passionate nature of America's first great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club.

Author : Steven Jon Holmes
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299161545
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Young John Muir written by Steven Jon Holmes and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a founder of the Sierra Club and promoter of the national parks, as a passionate nature writer and as a principal figure of the environmental movement, John Muir stands as a powerful symbol of connection with the natural world. But how did Muir's own relationship with nature begin? In this pioneering book, Steven J. Holmes offers a dramatically new interpretation of Muir's formative years, one that reveals the agony as well as the elation of his earliest experiences of nature. From his childhood in Scotland and Wisconsin through his young adulthood in the Midwest and Canada, Muir struggled--often without success--to find a place for himself both in nature and in society. Far from granting comfort, the natural world confronted the young Muir with a full range of practical, emotional, and religious conflicts. Only with the help of his family, his religion, and the extraordinary power of nature itself could Muir in his late twenties find a welcoming vision of nature as home--a vision that would shape his lifelong environmental experience, most immediately in his transformative travels through the South and to the Yosemite Valley. More than a biography, The Young John Muir is a remarkable exploration of the human relationship with wilderness. Accessible and engaging, the book will appeal to anyone interested in the individual struggle to come to terms with the power of nature.

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608333094
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Muir written by John Muir and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Muir (1848-1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, whose writings contributed to the preservation of Yosemite and other natural parks, and helped spark the modern environmental movement. He is the founder of the Sierra Club, which numbers hundreds of thousands of members. This volume draws on his letters, journals, and other writings, to explore the deep spiritual dimension of his affinity with nature an aspect of his work that is seldom explored

Author : John Muir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781568463476
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness written by John Muir and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of some of John Muir's most memorable and inspirational words reminds us of a shared responsibility and inescapable bond--that all inhabitants of this planet "travel the Milky Way together."

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613915991
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness World Of John Muir written by John Muir and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During John Muir's extraordinary life as a conservationist, he traveled through most of the American wilderness alone and on foot, without a gun or a sleeping bag. In 1903, while on a three-day camping trip with President Theodore Roosevelt, he convinced the president of the importance of a national conservation program, and he is given major credit for saving the Grand Canyon and Arizona's Petrified Forest. Muir's writing, based on journals he kept throughout his life, gives our generation a picture of an America still wild and unsettled only one hundred years ago. Edwin Way Teale has collected here the best of Muir's writing, selected from all of his major works, including MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA and TRAVELS IN ALASKA. THE WILDERNESS WORLD OF JOHN MUIR provides "reading that is often magnificent, thrilling, exciting, breathtaking, and awe-inspiring" (Kirkus Reviews).