John Muir : Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth; My First Summer in the Sierra; The Mountains of California; Stickeen; Essays (Library of America)

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In a life-time of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir was The united states’s most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness. A a very powerful figure within the creation of our national parks system and a far-seeing prophet of environmental awareness who founded the Sierra Club in 1892, he was once also a master of natural description who evoked with unique power and intimacy the untrammeled landscapes of the American West. The Library of The united states’s Nature Writings collects his most significant and easiest-loved works in a single volume, including: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913), My First Summer within the Sierra (1911), The Mountains of California (1894) and Stickeen (1909). Rounding out the volume is a wealthy collection of essays—including “Yosemite Glaciers,” “God’s First Temples,” “Snow-Storm on Mount Shasta,” “The American Forests,” and the late appeal “Save the Redwoods”—highlighting quite a lot of aspects of his career: his exploration of the Grand Canyon and of what was Yosemite and Yellowstone national parks, his successful crusades to preserve the wilderness, his early walking tour to Florida, and the Alaska journey of 1879.

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