the john muir exhibit - press_releases - muir of the mountains
by William O. Douglas
(
from the book's dust jacket
)
Muir of the Mountains
by William O. Douglas
Illustrations by Daniel San Souci.
1994
Sierra Club Books
Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961
Includes Index
Original text copyright 1961 by the estate of William O. Douglas.
Abridged text copyright 1994 by Sierra Club Books.
Illustrations copyright 1994 by Daniel San Souci
Reissued in a handsome commemorative volume to
celebrate the Sierra Club's centennial, William O.
Douglas's classic children's biography of John Muir
reveals the events and ideas that shaped America's
pioneer conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club.
Illustrated with superb new drawing by Daniel San Souci,
this slightly abridged edition is tailored especially for
today's young audience.
Interweaving Muir's own dramatic accounts of his
adventures and his observations on the natural world,
Douglas offers fascinating glimpses of Muir's boyhood in
Scotland; his awakening love of nature; the family's
move to the United States to carve a farm out of the
Wisconsin backwoods; and Muir's budding career as an
inventor and botanist. Muir of the Mountains also
recaptures the excitement of his
thousand-mile walk
from Louisville, Kentucky, to the Gulf of Mexico; his first
visit to the majestic Sierra Nevada of California; and his
travels across a deeply crevassed glacier in Alaska with
only a brave little dog named
Stickeen
as company.
Muir's adventures make for thrilling reading -- and
with the reissue of this classic biography, his exciting,
purposeful life will inspire a new generation of young
readers.
William O. Douglas (1898-1980) served as an associate
justice on the United States Supreme Court for more than
thirty-six years (1939-1975), the longest term of any
justice. A prominent naturalist, world traveler, and
author, Douglas wrote seventeen books, including many
on nature and conservation.
Daniel San Souci, a resident of Oakland, California, has
illustrated more than thirty books for young readers,
including
North County Night
(which he also wrote) and
The Golden Deer
, retold by Margaret Hodges.
He is an active lecturer and teaches a class in children's book
illustration at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco.
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