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Our National Parks - A campaign for the preservation of wilderness (Paperback, New edition)
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Our National Parks - A campaign for the preservation of wilderness (Paperback, New edition)
Series: John Muir: The Eight Wilderness-Discovery Books, 5
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List price R420
Loot Price R346
Discovery Miles 3 460
You Save R74 (18%)
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`Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away … God has cared
for these trees … but he cannot save them from fools – only
Uncle Sam can do that.’ First published in 1901, Our National
Parks is possibly the bestselling book of Muir’s
wilderness-discovery titles and was certainly the most influential
published in his lifetime, with a strong focus on the preservation
of forest reserves. With a strong political tone and shrewd, subtle
manoeuvring, Muir uses Our National Parks to persuade his
readership of the necessity of nature and national parks for human
recreation and more importantly for health and wellbeing, as well
as the – in his mind – obvious need for preservation of wild
ecosystems. Cannily he counterbalances this with the
acknowledgement of the need for timber and irrigation systems, in
order that his message is taken seriously; Muir’s passion is
portrayed so vividly and flamboyantly that without his learned
political and scientific reinforcement, he could be misconstrued as
purely a radical and eccentric nonconformist. However, the two
combined result in an engaging and convincing argument that these
landscapes are our `natural home’, and `fountains of life’. As
Muir expert Terry Gifford observes in the foreword, `Muir’s tone
can shift in this book from seductive persuasion, to charming
details of creatures, flora and landscapes, to scientific
information, to trail guide, to religious uplift, to a final
political speech of startling ferocity.’ John Muir’s strategic
yet genuine and beautiful conservationist essays were a first at
the time of publication, and are still highly applicable to our
attitudes and lifestyles today in the twenty-first century.
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