John Muir

My First Summer In The Sierra

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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

Autorenporträt

John Muir (1838-1914) was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author and environmentalist. Born and raised in Dunbar, East Lothian, his family emigrated to Wisconsin in 1849. His books, 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. John Muir has been honoured ever since as the father of the modern environment movement.

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