Overview
"The name of John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both American 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 marriage of scientific survey and natural history. This collection, including the never-before-published ""Stickeen"", presents the best of Muir's writings. He is the author of ""The Mountains of California"", ""Our National Parks"", ""The Yosemite"" and ""Steep Trails""."
Full Product Details
Author: John Muir ,
Graham White
Publisher: Canongate Books
Imprint: Canongate Books
Edition: Main
Volume: 67
Dimensions:
Width: 13.00cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 19.50cm
Weight: 0.450kg
ISBN: 9780862415860
ISBN 10: 0862415861
Pages: 672
Publication Date: 23 February 1998
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
It was after reading John Muir that I fell under his spell. The quality of the man...came out in his writing. -- Elisabeth Inglis * * Scotsman Weekend * * It is fascinating...the memoirs have beguiling warmth and immediacy. * * Glasgow Herald * * When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe * * My First Summer in the Sierra * *
* It was after reading John Muir that I fell under his spell. The quality of the man...came out in his writing. -- Elisabeth Inglis Scotsman Weekend * It is fascinating...the memoirs have beguiling warmth and immediacy. Glasgow Herald * When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe My First Summer in the Sierra
Author Information
John Muir (1838-1914) was born and raised in Dunbar, East Lothian. When his family emigrated to Wisconsin in 1849, young John was bought up to hard labour on his father's homestead. A natural inventor, he first discovered the joys of walking, and writing, after an industrial accident nearly blinded him. His journals, articles and lectures helped to develop international awareness of the need to preserve and protect the environment, and led to the foundation of the General Grant, Sequoia and Yosemite national parks in the US, as well as important conservation areas in his native East Lothian. John Muir has been honoured ever since as the father of the modern environment movement.
