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John Muir: Nature Writings (LOA #92) - The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / essays (Paperback, New)
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John Muir: Nature Writings (LOA #92) - The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / essays (Paperback, New)
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In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political
activism, John Muir made himself America's most eloquent spokesman
for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness. A crucial figure in
the creation of our national parks system and a visionary prophet
of environmental awareness, he was also a master of natural
description who evoked with unique power and intimacy the
untrammeled landscapes of the American West. Nature Writings
collects his most significant and best-loved works in a single
volume. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913) is Muir's account
of growing up by the sea in Scotland, of coming to America with his
family at age eleven, and of his early fascination with the natural
world. My First Summer in the Sierra (1911) is his famous account
of the spiritual awakening he experienced when, 1869, he first
encountered the mountains and valleys of central California. The
Mountains of California (1894) draws on half a lifetime of
exploration of the high Sierra country to celebrate and evoke the
region's lakes, forests, flowers, and animals in a masterpiece of
observation and poetic description. Also included are the widely
popular "Stickeen" (1909), Muir's affectionate story of an
adventure with a dog in Alaska, and a rich selection of essays -
including "Yosemite Glaciers", "God's First Temples", "Snow-Storm
on Mount Shasta", "The American Forests", and the late appeal "Save
the Redwoods" - highlighting various aspects of his career: his
exploration of what became Yosemite and Yellowstone national parks
and the Grand Canyon, his successful crusades to preserve the
wilderness, his early walking tour to Florida, and the Alaska
journey of 1879.
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