Selected Writings of John Muir
Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams
$74.99
- Hardcover
824 pages
- Release Date
4 April 2017
Summary
A new collection of the seminal writings of America’s first naturalist and the founder of the modern conservation movement.
This volume of John Muir’s selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American wilderness. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is Muir’s account of his childhood on a Wisconsin farm, where his interest in nature was first piqued; in The Mountains of California, The Yosemite, and Travels in Alaska<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781101907627 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1101907622 |
| Author: | John Muir, Terry Tempest Williams |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library USA |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 824 |
| Release Date: | 4 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 833g |
| Dimensions: | 43mm x 134mm x 211mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library Classics Series |
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John Muir
JOHN MUIR was born in 1838 in Scotland, and immigrated with his family in 1849 to the United States. In 1892, he and his colleague Robert Underwood Johnson founded the Sierra Club, of which Muir was president until his death; he was also influential in establishing four national parks. Controversial during and after his lifetime, his writings on wilderness preservation became the impetus for the modern environmentalist movement. Muir died in 1914 in California.
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS is the best-selling author of fifteen books, including the environmental classic Refuge and most recently, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks. She has received numerous awards and honors for her commitment to peace and ecological consciousness. She lives in Utah and Wyoming.
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