Journeys in the Wilderness
eBook - ePub

Journeys in the Wilderness

A John Muir Reader

  1. 576 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Journeys in the Wilderness

A John Muir Reader

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Birlinn
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781841586977

Table of contents

  1. JOURNEYS IN THE WILDERNESS
  2. CONTENTS
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. THE STORY OF MY BOYHOOD AND YOUTH (1913)
  5. MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA (1901)
  6. Selections from THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA (1894)
  7. Selections from OUR NATIONAL PARKS (1901)
  8. Selections from THE YOSEMITE
  9. STICKEEN (1909)
  10. Selections from STEEP TRAILS (1918)