Ronald Turnbull

Muir and More (eBook, ePUB)

John Muir, his life and walks

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

John Muir - a life, but also a hike. Muir is 200 miles of high-level granite and pine, but also the inventor of a clockwork self-awakening bed and the American national park system. Muir is East Lothian's Man of the Millennium - this despite the fact that he left Scotland for ever at the age of eleven - and one of the best long paths in the world.



Award-winning outdoor writer Ronald Turnbull follows John Muir from his birthplace in Dunbar to the Californian trail that bears his name. A perceptive, humorous companion over 210 miles of the Sierra Nevada (and 45 miles of East Lothian coast), Turnbull shares remote camps with some eccentric trail types, pokes fun at Thoreau and explores the paradoxes inherent in the preservation of wilderness. Most of all, he reflects on the life and ideas of John Muir himself: pioneering conservationist, writer and walker, inspired visionary and tiresome tree-hugger - the exiled Scot who invented the American outdoors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vertebrate Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781910240854
• Artikelnr.: 45379693

Autorenporträt

Ronald Turnbull is the author of The Riddle of Sphinx Rock (a cultural biography of Great Gable) and The Life and Times of the Black Pig (a biography of Ben Macdui) - both published by Millrace Outdoor - as well as The Book of the Bivvy (on tentless travel) and walking guides to the Cairngorms and Ben Nevis and Glen Coe for Cicerone Press.

Turnbull was born in St Andrews, just across the Forth from Muir's Dunbar. He now lives in Dumfriesshire, midway between the Lake District and the Highlands. He also walks in warm, Spanish-speaking corners of Europe. He has won the Outdoor Writers' and Photographers' Guild award for excellence five times (in various categories) and in 1994 gained the Fell Running Association's long-distance trophy for a run over all the hills of southern Scotland. His full 'cartload' of books, as well as his recent walks in California and the Appalachians, is described on his website www.ronaldturnbull.co.uk.