Our National Parks

Muir, John

Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901

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Our National Parks By John Muir Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1901, frontisphoto with eleven plates, 365 pp plus index, green pictorial cloth, 8.5 x 5.5 , 8vo. In good condition. Antiquarian ex-library of The Bigelow Free Public Library. Antiquarian plates and due dates dating to 1902 along with old hand call numbers on fly and pastedown. Ex-library blind stamp to tisseuguard. Light wear to extremities with minor scuffing along edges and corners. Slight soiling to surface of cloth. Spine ends lightly crushed from shelf wear. Internally good with light toning at edges and minor instances of foxing. Free of known marginalia. Binding tight and intact. Sound. Please see photos. Our National Parks is the only Muir publication that brings to life Muir s introduction to and subsequent in-person encounters with eminent American Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. This work greatly covers in detail America s National Parks, his greatest legacy. It is a comprehensive survey of the United State s parks system, whose current incarnation would never have existed without Muir s carefully written surveys. Muir recounts his interactions with Emerson, reflecting an effusive admiration from the writer, likening him to the surrounding natural phenomena. A beautiful masterpiece for lovers of natural history. Seller Inventory # COLN1901AFKX

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Title: Our National Parks

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

Publication Date: 1901

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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