Wilderness World of John Muir
β Scribed by Edwin Way Teale
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Year
- 1954
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 352
- Category
- Library
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The name of John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both America and Britain. Born in Dunbar in the east of Scotland in 1838, Muir is famed as the father of American conservation, and as the first person to promote the idea of National Parks. Combining acute obs
<span>John Muir is widely and rightly lauded as the nature mystic who added wilderness to the United Statesβ vision of itself, largely through the system of national parks and wild areas his writings and public advocacy helped create. That vision, however, came at a cost: the conquest and dispossess
<span>John Muir is widely and rightly lauded as the nature mystic who added wilderness to the United Statesβ vision of itself, largely through the system of national parks and wild areas his writings and public advocacy helped create. That vision, however, came at a cost: the conquest and dispossess
<span>John Muir is widely and rightly lauded as the nature mystic who added wilderness to the United Statesβ vision of itself, largely through the system of national parks and wild areas his writings and public advocacy helped create. That vision, however, came at a cost: the conquest and dispossess
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