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John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How a Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America

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A dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild The us, John Muir and Alaska.
John Muir used to be an enchanting man who used to be many things: inventor, scientist, revolutionary, druid (a up to date day Celtic priest), husband, son, father and friend, and a shining son of the Scottish Enlightenment — both in temperament and intellect. Kim Heacox, creator of The Only Kayak, bring us a story that evolves as Muir’s life did, from one of outside adventure into one of ecological guardianship—Muir went from impassioned creator to leading activist. The book is not only an engaging and dramatic profile of Muir, but an expose on glaciers, and their importance on the earth today. Muir shows us how one person changed The us, helped it embrace its wilderness, and in turn, gave us a better world.
December 2014 marked the 100th anniversary of Muir’s death. Muir died of a broken heart, some say, when Congress voted to approve the building of Hetch Hetchy Dam in Yosemite National Park. In all probability in the greatest piece of environmental symbolism in the U.S. in a very long time, on the California ballot last November used to be a measure to dismantle the Hetch Hetchy Dam.
Muir’s legacy is that he reordered our priorities and contributed to a new scientific revolution that used to be picked up a generation later by Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, and is championed today by influential writers like E.O. Wilson and Jared Diamond. Heacox takes us into how Muir changed our world, advanced the science of glaciology and popularized geology. How he got people
out there. How he gave The us a new vision of Alaska, and of itself.

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