John Muir

The Wilderness Journeys

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth: A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf: My First Summer in the Sierra: Travels in Alaska: Stickeen

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Produktbeschreibung

John Muir lived, as he put it, 'in an infinite storm of beauty.' 'No other writer is so ceaselessly astonished by the natural world, or communicates that astonishment more urgently., (Robert Macfarlane)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780862415860
• ISBN-10: 0862415861
• Artikelnr.: 21708503

Autorenporträt

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.