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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction by the Editor; Keynote by John Muir; Part One-From The Story of My Boyhood and Youth; A Boyhood in Scotland; A New World; Life on a Wisconsin Farm; Young Hunters; Knowledge and Inventions; The World and the University; Part Two-From My First Summer in the Sierra; Through the Foothills with a Flock of Sheep; In Camp on the North Fork of the Merced; A Bread Famine; To the High Mountains; The Yosemite; Over North Dome; A Strange Experience; The Mono Trail; Bloody Canon and Mono Lake; The Tuolumne Camp; Back to the Lowlands; Part Three-Stickeen. |
| Summary |
Biographer Steven J. Holmes once wrote that John Muir was ""one of the patron saints of twentieth-century American environmental activity."" In his lifetime, the engineer, author, biologist, and activist worked alongside powerful men such as President Theodore Roosevelt, railroad executive E.H. Harriman, and conservationist Gifford Pinchot. Muir was responsible for the creation of the Sierra Club and he played an important role in preserving the Yosemite Valley and Sequoia National Park. During his lifetime, Muir published six different volumes of nature and personal writing. Afte. |
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Muir, John, 1838-1914.
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Muir, John, 1838-1914. (OCoLC)fst00039248
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Conservationists -- United States -- Biography.
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Environmentalists -- United States -- Biography.
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Naturalists -- United States -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Environmentalists & Naturalists.
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Conservationists. (OCoLC)fst00875578
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Environmentalists. (OCoLC)fst00913554
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Naturalists. (OCoLC)fst01034543
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Brennan, Stephen, active 2003, editor.
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Print version: Brennan, Stephen. An Autobiography of John Muir. New York : Skyhorse Publishing, ©2014 9781628737677 |
| ISBN |
9781629141367 (electronic bk.) |
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1629141364 (electronic bk.) |
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