John Muir's Last Journey
South To The Amazon And East To Africa: Unpublished Journals And Selected Correspondence
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2001
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Island Press (Verlag)
978-1-55963-640-7 (ISBN)
Island Press (Verlag)
978-1-55963-640-7 (ISBN)
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This work provides a glimpse of a Muir whose interests as a naturalist, traveller and conservationist extended well beyond the mountains of California. It presents unpublished journals and selected correspondence from the environmental leader John Muir.
John Muir's Last Journey provides a rare glimpse of a Muir whose interests as a naturalist, traveller, and conservationist extended well beyond the mountains of California. This volume presents heretofore-unpublished journals and selected correspondence from the great environmental leader John Muir, describing the 40,000-mile journey he took at the age of 73 to study the rare flora and fauna of South America and Africa.
John Muir's Last Journey provides a rare glimpse of a Muir whose interests as a naturalist, traveller, and conservationist extended well beyond the mountains of California. This volume presents heretofore-unpublished journals and selected correspondence from the great environmental leader John Muir, describing the 40,000-mile journey he took at the age of 73 to study the rare flora and fauna of South America and Africa.
Michael P. Branch is associate professor of literature and environment at the University of Nevada, Reno, co-founder of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, and co-editor of The Height of Our Mountains (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998) and Reading the Earth (University of Idaho Press, 1998). John Muir (1838-1914) was one of America's most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist, and founder of the Sierra Club.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.5.2001 |
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Verlagsort | Washington |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 153 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie | |
Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika | |
Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika | |
ISBN-10 | 1-55963-640-8 / 1559636408 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-55963-640-7 / 9781559636407 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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