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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)
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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)
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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.
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