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The Incredible Travel Tales of John Muir (Illustrated Edition)


The Incredible Travel Tales of John Muir (Illustrated Edition)

Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies

von: John Muir

1,99 €

Verlag: Musaicum Books
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 04.07.2017
ISBN/EAN: 9788075838162
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 1250

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During his numerous travels across the North America John Muir left behind a several travel books and travel reports. In September 1867, Muir undertook a walk of about 1,000 miles from Indiana to Florida, which he recounted in his book A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. He had no specific route chosen, except to go by the "wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find. Upon coming to California Muir immediately left for a visit to Yosemite, a place he had only read about. His hiking journeys through the mountains, valleys,forests andglaciersof Sierra are vividly described in books My First Summer in the Sierra and The Mountains of California. Muir also made four trips to Alaska and he documented these experiences in books Travels in Alaska and The Cruise of the Corwin. Steep Trails is collection of Muir's papers written during his journeysover a period of twenty-nine years collected by William Frederic Badè.

Table of Contents:

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

My First Summer in the Sierra

The Mountains of California

Travels in Alaska

The Cruise of the Corwin

Steep Trails

John Muir (1838-1914) was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountainsof California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is a prominent American conservation organization.

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