Name: My First Summer in the Sierra and Selected Essays By John Muir (Formerly Kings College London UK)
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My First Summer in the Sierra and Selected Essays: A Library of America Paperback Classic by John Muir (Formerly Kings College London UK)

Describing his spiritual awakening amid the mountains and valleys of central California, John Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra is, like Walden, one of the seminal texts in the literature of the American environment. It is presented here with an introduction by writer and activist Bill McKibben and related essays about Yosemite, the Hetch Hetchy Valley, and other wonders of the Sierra Nevada.

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"When we consider John Muir, we consider one of the small handful of Americans who truly changed the world."--"Bill McKibben"

About John Muir (Formerly Kings College London UK)

John Muir (1838-1914) was born in Scotland. In 1849 he emigrated with his family to the United States, where he later enrolled in courses in chemistry, geology, and botany at the University of Wisconsin. Muir made extended journeys throughout America, observing both scientifically and enthusiastically the beauties of the wilderness. The Mountains of California, his first book, was published in 1894. He eventually settled in California, where he became an impassioned leader of the forest conservation movement. His writings include Our National Parks (1901), My First Summer in the Sierra (1911), The Yosemite (1912), Travels in Alaska (1915), A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916), and Steep Trails (1918).
Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, and The Age of Missing Information. He is a frequent contributor to such publications as Outside, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books, and a former staff writer at the New Yorker.

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Title

My First Summer in the Sierra and Selected Essays: A Library of America Paperback Classic by John Muir (Formerly Kings College London UK)

Author

John Muir (Formerly Kings College London UK)

Series

Library of America

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Used - Good

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Paperback

Publisher

The Library of America

Year published

2014-10-16

Number of pages

400

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My First Summer in the Sierra and Selected Essays: A Library of America Paperback Classic by John Muir (Formerly Kings College London UK)

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