The Wilderness Journeys - The Story of My Boyhood and Youth: A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf: My First Summer in the Sierra: Travels in Alaska: Stickeen (Paperback, Main)

The name of John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both America and Britain. Born in Dunbar in the east of Scotland in 1838, Muir is famed as the father of American conservation, and as the first person to promote the idea of National Parks. Combining acute observation with a sense of inner discovery, Muir's writings of his travels through some of the greatest landscapes on Earth, including the Carolinas, Florida, Alaska and those lands which were to become the great National Parks of Yosemite and the Sierra Valley, raise an awareness of nature to a spiritual dimension. These journals provide a unique marriage of scientific survey of natural history with lyrical and often amusing anecdotes, retaining a freshness, intensity and brutal honesty which will amaze the modern reader. This collection, including the never-before-published Stickeen, presents the finest of Muir's writings, and imparts a rounded portrait of a man whose generosity, passion, discipline and vision are an inspiration to this day.

General

Imprint:	Canongate Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 1998
First published:	February 1998
Authors:	John Muir
Introduction by:	Graham White
Dimensions:	198 x 127 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	672
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-86241-586-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > Classic travel writing Books > Biography > General Books > Travel > Travel writing > Classic travel writing Promotions
LSN:	0-86241-586-1
Barcode:	9780862415860

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