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Author | : Steven Jon Holmes |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780299161545 |
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As a founder of the Sierra Club and promoter of the national parks, as a passionate nature writer and as a principal figure of the environmental movement, John Muir stands as a powerful symbol of connection with the natural world. But how did Muir's own relationship with nature begin? In this pioneering book, Steven J. Holmes offers a dramatically new interpretation of Muir's formative years, one that reveals the agony as well as the elation of his earliest experiences of nature. From his childhood in Scotland and Wisconsin through his young adulthood in the Midwest and Canada, Muir struggled--often without success--to find a place for himself both in nature and in society. Far from granting comfort, the natural world confronted the young Muir with a full range of practical, emotional, and religious conflicts. Only with the help of his family, his religion, and the extraordinary power of nature itself could Muir in his late twenties find a welcoming vision of nature as home--a vision that would shape his lifelong environmental experience, most immediately in his transformative travels through the South and to the Yosemite Valley. More than a biography, The Young John Muir is a remarkable exploration of the human relationship with wilderness. Accessible and engaging, the book will appeal to anyone interested in the individual struggle to come to terms with the power of nature.
Author | : John Muir |
Publisher | : Dawn Publications (CA) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Conservationists |
ISBN | : 9781584690092 |
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A biography of the man known as "father of America's national parks" and an influential conservationist, told in the first person, using Muir's own words.
Author | : Samuel Hall Young |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James B. Hunt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780881463934 |
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"[This book] provides a detailed rendering of John Muir's thousand-mile walk to the Gulf based on both manuscript and published accounts. Hunt particularly examines the development of Muir's environmental thought as a young adult. [He] experienced delight in seeing nature anew after recovering from partial blindness. He witnessed both the Civil War's and Reconstruction's impacts on communities, individuals and the environment. ..."--Back cover.
Author | : John Muir |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Botany |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Montrew Dunham |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2008-06-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1439113734 |
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John Muir was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His activism helped to preserve Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is still active today. The John Muir Trail is a 211-mile hiking trail in the Sierra Nevada. Now readers can explore how his childhood influenced his life.
Author | : Donald Worster |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199782245 |
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Donald Worster's A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written. It is the first to be based on Muir's full private correspondence and to meet modern scholarly standards, yet it is also full of rich detail and personal anecdote, uncovering the complex inner life behind the legend of the solitary mountain man. It traces Muir from his boyhood in Scotland and frontier Wisconsin to his adult life in California right after the Civil War up to his death on the eve of World War I. It explores his marriage and family life, his relationship with his abusive father, his many friendships with the humble and famous (including Theodore Roosevelt and Ralph Waldo Emerson), and his role in founding the modern American conservation movement. Inspired by Muir's passion for the wilderness, Americans created a long and stunning list of national parks and wilderness areas, Yosemite most prominent among them. Yet the book also describes a Muir who was a successful fruit-grower, a talented scientist and world-traveler, a doting father and husband, and a self-made man of wealth and political influence. The winner of numerous book awards, A Passion for Nature was also named a Best Book of 2008 by Washington Post Book World. It is the first comprehensive biography of Muir to appear in six decades.
Author | : Julie Bertagna |
Publisher | : Yosemite Conservancy |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-05-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1951179064 |
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An exuberant graphic bio of the life of John Muir. John Muir led an adventurous life, starting with his wild and playful boyhood in Scotland to his legendary exploits in America, where he became an inventor, a global explorer, and the first modern environmentalist—and even became friends with a president! His heart was always in the outdoors and he aimed to experience all he could. Most importantly, though, John Muir told the world about the wonders of nature. His words made a difference and inspired people in many countries to start protecting planet Earth— and they still do.
Author | : John Muir |
Publisher | : Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin Company |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Dogs |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kathryn Lasky |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2008-08-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780763638849 |
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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.