John Muir

Broschiertes Buch

My First Summer in the Sierra

Beschreibung

A celebration of Sierra from one of the founding fathers of modern conservation. Introduced by Robert Macfarlane

Autor

John Muir

Produktdetails

• Canons
• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Main - Canons edition
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 174g
• ISBN-13: 9781782114437
• ISBN-10: 1782114432
• Artikelnr.: 40522119

Rezensionen

Muir's prose is a miracle of immediacy. His books are illuminated by sunshine and starlight. The cold mineral air of the mountains and the resiny reek of coniferous forests lift bracingly off his pages. No other writer is so ceaselessly astonished by the natural world as Muir, or communicates that astonishment more urgently. Muir lived "in an infinite storm of beauty", and his readers live in it with him Robert Macfarlane