John Muir: Travels in Alaska - Hardcover

John Muir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1423644743 ISBN 13: 9781423644743

Publisher: Gibbs M. Smith Inc, 2016

Synopsis

Considered one of the patron saints of twentieth-century environmental activity, John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West but also fought for its preservation.

"Travels in Alaska" is part of a series that celebrates the tradition of literary naturalists--writers who embrace the natural world. In this collection, originally published in 1915, John Muir captures the beauty and intensity of Alaskan wilderness and its people from his travels between 1879 and 1890. John Muir's strength lies in delicately mapping the intimate connection between the person and natural world, and awakening his readers to that reality. With an increasing global focus on the environment, and humans' role in protecting it, there's never been a finer time to reacquaint oneself with John Muir's writings.

John Muir was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States, and founder of The Sierra Club. His letters, essays, and books of his adventures in nature have been read by millions.

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Review:

The name John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both American and Britain. Born in Dunbar in the east of Scotland in 1838, Muir is famed as the father of American conservation. He founded the Sierra Club and was the first person to promote the idea of national parks. In Travels in Alaska he takes a trip through last century's Alaska. He writes the way he took pictures, in clean, easy-going, enthusiastic prose, with insight, attention, care and genuine feeling. It's a lovely look into a beautiful land and its inhabitants, told in a flowing narrative that's far less rushed than contemporary travel tales. --Acton Lane

Review:

"No writer on Alaska has ever succeeded as well as John Muir in combining accuracy of description with colorful word-painting. His writings are likely to remain for a long time the classics on the subject." --"The American Review of Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: Gibbs M. Smith Inc
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1423644743
• ISBN 13: 9781423644743
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304