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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin company
Pub. Date
1909
Edition
New and enl. ed.,
Physical Desc
5 p. l., [ix]-x p., 1 l., 382 p., 1 l. front., 31 pl., map. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
John Muir (1838-1914) ranks among America's most important and influential environmentalists and nature writers. Devoted to the preservation of wilderness areas, Muir founded the Sierra Club and was active in the establishment of Yosemite National Park. Our National Parks, originally published in 1901, includes ten articles that previously appeared in The Atlantic Monthly. Muir wrote them in hopes of exciting interest in the parks, certain that visitors...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers insight into the camping trip that President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir took to the redwoods of Yosemite in 1903, during which the two men had experiences and conversations that eventually contributed to the establishment of national parks in the United States.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 92
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
©1997
Physical Desc
888 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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John Muir, the most famous naturalist in American history, protected Yosemite, co-founded the Sierra Club, and is sometimes called the Father of the National Parks. A poor immigrant, self-taught, individualistic, and skeptical of institutions, his idealistic belief in the spiritual benefits of holistic natural systems led him to a philosophy of preserving wilderness unimpaired. Gifford Pinchot founded the U.S. Forest Service and advised his friend...
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