the john muir exhibit - bibliographic_resources - book_jackets - the wilderness world of john muir
The Wilderness World of John Muir
with an Introduction and Interpretive comments
by Edwin Way Teale
(
from the paperback's back cover - Mariner/ Houghton Mifflin 2001 edition
)
The Wilderness World of John Muir
(with an Introduction and Interpretive comments)
by Edwin Way Teale
2001, reprint of original 1954 edition.
Mariner Books; 1st Mariner Books edition/Houghton Mifflin
"The essential selection of writings by the "most celebrated celebrator
of nature in America." -
Commentary
John Muir (1838-1914) was one of the most influential conservationists
and nature writers in American history.
During John Muir's extraordinary life as a conservationist, he 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 given major credit for saving the Grand Canyon and Arizona's Petrified
Forest. Muir's writing, based on journals he kept throughout his life, gives
our generation a picture of an America still wild and unsettled only one hundred
years ago. Edwin Way Teale has collected here the best of Muir's writing, selected
from all of his major works, including My First Summer in the Sierra and Travels
in Alaska. The Wilderness World of John Muir provides "reading
that is often magnificent, thrilling, exciting, breathtaking, and awe-inspiring" (Kirkus
review)
The founder of the Sierra Club and its president until his death, as well
as the discoverer of Glacier Bay and the largest of Alaska's tidal glaciers,
Muir was a spirit so free that all he did to prepare for an expedition was
to "throw some tea and bread into an old sack and jump over the back fence."
As the world confronts the deterioration of hte natural environment and an
ever-quickening pace of life, the attraction of Muir's writings has never been
greater.
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