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John Muir's extraordinary vision of America comes to life in these fascinating selections from his personal journals. As a conservationist, John Muir traveled through most of the American wilderness alone and on foot, without a gun or a sleeping bag. In 1903, while on a three-day camping trip with President Theodore Roosevelt, he convinced the president of the importance of a national conservation program, and he is widely recognized for saving the Grand Canyon and Arizona's Petrified Forest. Muir's writing, based on journals he kept throughout his life, gives our generation a picture of an America still wild and unsettled only one hundred years ago. InThe Wildernesss Worldof John Muir Edwin Way Teale has selected the best of Muir's writing from all of his major works--includingMy First Summer in the Sierra andTravels in Alaska--to provide a singular collection that provides to be "magnificent, thrilling, exciting, breathtaking, and awe-inspiring" (Kirkus Reviews).… (mais)
This is absolutely the best book to start reading John Muir. It is an annotated collections of selections of Muir's best writings, with an excellent overall introduction, chapter introductions, and arranagement in chronological order by Edwin Way Teale. ( )
During John Muir's extraordinary life as a conservationist, he traveled through most of the American wilderness alone and on foot, without a gun or a sleeping bag. In 1903, while on a three-day camping trip with President Theodore Roosevelt, he convinced the president of the importance of a national conservation program, and he is given major credit for saving the Grand Canyon and Arizona's Petrified Forest. Muir's writing, based on journals he kept throughout his life, gives our generation a picture of an America still wild and unsettled only one hundred years ago. Edwin Way Teale has collected here the best of Muir's writing, selected from all of his major works, including MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA and TRAVELS IN ALASKA. THE WILDERNESS WORLD OF JOHN MUIR provides "reading that is often magnificent, thrilling, exciting, breathtaking, and awe-inspiring" (Kirkus Reviews). (Product Description)
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Dedicated to the Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society, the National Parks Association, and all those who are fighting the good fight to preserve what John Muir sought to save
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
John Muir was born on April 21, 1838, in Dunbar, Scotland, the third child and the first boy in the family of Daniel and Ann Muir.
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John Muir's extraordinary vision of America comes to life in these fascinating selections from his personal journals. As a conservationist, John Muir traveled through most of the American wilderness alone and on foot, without a gun or a sleeping bag. In 1903, while on a three-day camping trip with President Theodore Roosevelt, he convinced the president of the importance of a national conservation program, and he is widely recognized for saving the Grand Canyon and Arizona's Petrified Forest. Muir's writing, based on journals he kept throughout his life, gives our generation a picture of an America still wild and unsettled only one hundred years ago. InThe Wildernesss Worldof John Muir Edwin Way Teale has selected the best of Muir's writing from all of his major works--includingMy First Summer in the Sierra andTravels in Alaska--to provide a singular collection that provides to be "magnificent, thrilling, exciting, breathtaking, and awe-inspiring" (Kirkus Reviews).
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