The Wilderness Journeys by John Muir
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.
It was after reading John Muir that I fell under his spellThe 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 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 * *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780862415860 |
| ISBN 10 | 0862415861 |
| Title | The Wilderness Journeys |
| Author | John Muir |
| Series | Canongate Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 1998-02-23 |
| Number of pages | 672 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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