MUIR JOHN, NATURE'S VISIONARY - Hardcover

Ehrlich, Gretel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792279549 ISBN 13: 9780792279549

Verlag: National Geographic Society, 2000

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Book by Ehrlich Gretel

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The life of one of the nation's most prized environmental heroes, John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, is presented through photographs that are further enriched with reproductions of Muir's own drawings.

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Emigrating from Scotland as an eleven-year-old in 1849, John Muir spent a harsh boyhood working on his family's farm in Wisconsin. After a factory accident in his early twenties left him temporarily blind, Muir left behind what he saw as the degradations of cities and farms and set out for unspoiled territory. And the rest, as they say, is ecological and conservation history.

The untouched lands of the Sierra Nevada, which he christened the "Range of Light", became Muir's lifelong passion. As the nation's most revered spokesman for the wilderness and a founder of the Sierra Club, Muir made immeasurable contributions to the beauty and preservation of our continent. And this exquisite book captures as never before the extraordinary nature of his life. Prize-winning photographer Lynn Johnson brings the matchless vitality of this bearded warrior to thrilling life. The visual odyssey is further enriched by reproductions of Muir's own drawings as well as the rarely seen and recently rediscovered images of Carleton Watkins. Showcasing its legendary subject's own rhapsodic writings, John Muir: Nature's Visionary bears powerful witness to Muir's enduring contributions to the American landscape.

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• Verlag: National Geographic Society
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0792279549
• ISBN 13: 9780792279549
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224