John Muir's extraordinary vision of America comes to life in these fascinating selections from his personal journals.
As a conservationist, John Muir traveled through most of the American wilderness alone and on foot, without a gun or a sleeping bag. In 1903, while on a three-day camping trip with President Theodore Roosevelt, he convinced the president of the importance of a national conservation program, and he is widely recognized for saving the Grand Canyon and Arizona's Petrified Forest. Muir's writing, based on journals he kept throughout his life, gives our...
John Muir's extraordinary vision of America comes to life in these fascinating selections from his personal journals.
'The volume is one long delightful field trip in the company of a charming and erudite companion...Covering a generally overlooked aspect of the history of New York City, it is a painstaking, thorough, carefully written volume...' -Edwin Way Teale in The New York Times Review
'The volume is one long delightful field trip in the company of a charming and erudite companion...Covering a generally overlooked aspect of the histo...