John Muir

Broschiertes Buch

My First Summer in the Sierra

Beschreibung

A celebration of Sierra from one of the founding fathers of modern conservation. Introduced by Robert Macfarlane

Autor

John Muir (1838-1914) was born and raised in Dunbar, East Lothian. When his family emigrated to Wisconsin in 1849, young John was bought up to hard labour on his father's homestead. A natural inventor, he first discovered the joys of walking, and writing, after an industrial accident nearly blinded him. His journals, articles and lectures helped to develop international awareness of the need to preserve and protect the environment, and led to the foundation of the General Grant, Sequoia and Yosemite national parks in the US, as well as important conservation areas in his native East Lothian. John Muir has been honoured ever since as the father of the modern environment movement.

Produktdetails

• Canons
• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Main - Canons edition
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 174g
• ISBN-13: 9781782114437
• ISBN-10: 1782114432
• Artikelnr.: 40522119

Rezensionen

Muir's prose is a miracle of immediacy. His books are illuminated by sunshine and starlight. The cold mineral air of the mountains and the resiny reek of coniferous forests lift bracingly off his pages. No other writer is so ceaselessly astonished by the natural world as Muir, or communicates that astonishment more urgently. Muir lived "in an infinite storm of beauty", and his readers live in it with him Robert Macfarlane