Stickeen: the Story of a Dog
Author | : John Muir |
Publisher | : Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin Company |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Dogs |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Muir |
Publisher | : Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin Company |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Dogs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J. Muir |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1141086042 |
Author | : Julie Dunlap |
Publisher | : NorthWord Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : 9781559719032 |
Tells the story of one of America's natural history heroes, John Muir, and how a trusting dog changed his life.
Author | : John Muir |
Publisher | : Boston, Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of Alaska, irresistibly drawn to its awe-inspiring glaciers and its wild menagerie of bears, bald eagles, wolves, and whales. Half-poet and half-geologist, he recorded his experiences and reflections in "Travels in Alaska," a work he was in the process of completing at the time of his death in 1914. As Edward Hoagland writes in his Introduction, "A century and a quarter later, we are reading ÝMuir's ̈ account because there in the glorious fiords . . . he is at our elbow, nudging us along, prompting us to understand that heaven is on earth--is the Earth--and rapture is the sensible response wherever a clear line of sight remains." This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes photographs from the original 1915 edition.
Author | : John Muir |
Publisher | : Library of America |
Total Pages | : 946 |
Release | : 1997-04-22 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781883011246 |
Known as the "Father of the National Parks," John Muir wrote about the American West with unmatched passion and eloquence—as seen in this stunning, one-volume collection In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir became 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 far-seeing prophet of environmental awareness who founded the Sierra Club in 1892, 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 Muir's most significant and best-loved works in a single volume, including: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913), My First Summer in the Sierra (1911), The Mountains of California (1894) and Stickeen (1909). Rounding out the volume is a rich selection of essays—including "Yosemite Glaciers," "God's First Temples," "Snow-Storm on Mount Shasta," "The American Forests," and "Save the Redwoods"—that highlight various aspects of his career: his exploration of the Grand Canyon and of what became Yosemite and Yellowstone national parks, his successful crusades to preserve the wilderness, his early walking tour to Florida, and the Alaska journey of 1879. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Author | : Kathryn Lasky |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2008-08-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780763638849 |
Depicts the life of John Muir--writer, scholar, inventor, shepherd, farmer, explorer, and naturalist--who devoted his life to the land, influenced the first national park in America--Yosemite--and founded the Sierra Club in 1892.
Author | : Washington Irving |
Publisher | : London : J. Murray |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1835 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : |
Account of an expedition in Oct. and Nov. 1832 through a part of the unorganized Indian country now the state of Oklahoma.
Author | : Samuel Hall Young |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Muir |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Botany |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ronald H. Limbaugh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This is a literary detective story. Like all good stories, it could begin, "Once upon a time..." Once upon a time in 1880, a young man named John Muir spent a day crossing a rugged glacier in Alaska. Though he did not even think it worth recording in that evening's diary entry, a little black dog accompanied him on that storm-haunted trek. As time passed, the image of the dog and what it symbolized grew in Muir's mind, entering his after-dinner sessions of storytelling. Seventeen years after the event, the popular story of Stickeen finally saw print, though in a form much edited from Muir's original. Historian Ronald H. Limbaugh here explains the mystery of why John Muir struggled for so long to bring Stickeen to life. Dr. Limbaugh pursued the evolution of the tale through a previously underexplored resource, the handwritten annotations Muir left in the volumes of his personal library. His thorough study covers the oral and literary history of the adventure, discusses its style, content, and sources, and places it--and Muir's difficulties in perfecting it--in the context of some of the major concerns of the era, particularly the Darwinian debates and the emerging animal rights movement. Although the story of Stickeen has been published many times (and in many forms) since the 1897 article, this is the first time Muir's original version has been printed. It is set alongside other versions of the story, including a sentimental version for children composed by Muir's niece and the original journal entry from which all versions emerged. Perhaps best of all, it is also set within the context of author Limbaugh's high readable, lucid prose.