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Author: Kim Heacox
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493008684
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Pages : 264
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
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John Muir And The Ice That Started A Fire

by Kim Heacox, John Muir And The Ice That Started A Fire Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download John Muir And The Ice That Started A Fire books, A dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska. John Muir was a fascinating man who was many things: inventor, scientist, revolutionary, druid (a modern day Celtic priest), husband, son, father and friend, and a shining son of the Scottish Enlightenment -- both in temperament and intellect. Kim Heacox, author of The Only Kayak, bring us a story that evolves as Muir’s life did, from one of outdoor adventure into one of ecological guardianship---Muir went from impassioned author to leading activist. The book is not just an engaging and dramatic profile of Muir, but an expose on glaciers, and their importance in the world today. Muir shows us how one person changed America, helped it embrace its wilderness, and in turn, gave us a better world. December 2014 will mark the 100th anniversary of Muir’s death. Muir died of a broken heart, some say, when Congress voted to approve the building of Hetch Hetchy Dam in Yosemite National Park. Perhaps in the greatest piece of environmental symbolism in the U.S. in a long time, on the California ballot this November is a measure to dismantle the Hetch Hetchy Dam. Muir’s legacy is that he reordered our priorities and contributed to a new scientific revolution that was picked up a generation later by Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, and is championed today by influential writers like E.O. Wilson and Jared Diamond. Heacox will take us into how Muir changed our world, advanced the science of glaciology and popularized geology. How he got people out there. How he gave America a new vision of Alaska, and of itself.

Author: John Muir
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026847539
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Pages : 480
Category : Travel
Languages : en
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The Alaska Account Of John Muir Travels In Alaska The Cruise Of The Corwin Stickeen Alaska Days With John Muir Illustrated

by John Muir, The Alaska Account Of John Muir Travels In Alaska The Cruise Of The Corwin Stickeen Alaska Days With John Muir Illustrated Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The Alaska Account Of John Muir Travels In Alaska The Cruise Of The Corwin Stickeen Alaska Days With John Muir Illustrated books, This carefully crafted ebook: "THE ALASKA ACCOUNT of John Muir: Travels in Alaska, The Cruise of the Corwin, Stickeen & Alaska Days with John Muir (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Well known naturalist and environmentalist, John Muir made four trips to Alaska as far as Unalaska, Alaska and Barrow, Alaska. He first traveled to Alaska in 1879 and was the first Euro-American to explore Glacier Bay. Muir Glacier was later named after him. He returned for further explorations in Southeast Alaska in 1880, and in 1881 was with the party that landed on Wrangel Island on the USS Corwin and claimed that island for the United States. He documented this experience in journal entries and newspaper articles—later compiled and edited into his book The Cruise of the Corwin. Travels in Alaska and Stickeen are also Muir's books about his doings and adventures in Alaska. Table of Contents: Travels in Alaska The Cruise of the Corwin Stickeen: The Story of a Dog Alaska Days with John Muir by Samuel Hall Young John Muir (1838-1914) was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is a prominent American conservation organization.

Author: John Muir
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027304423
Format: PDF, ePub
Pages : 2263
Category : Travel
Languages : en
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The Complete Works Of John Muir Illustrated Edition

by John Muir, The Complete Works Of John Muir Illustrated Edition Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The Complete Works Of John Muir Illustrated Edition books, This meticulously edited book brings you the complete works of an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist and advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America, known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks". This exceptional collection is comprised of Muir's travel memoirs, wilderness essays, environmental studies and personal letters. Contents: Books Picturesque California The Mountains of California Our National Parks My First Summer in the Sierra The Yosemite Travels in Alaska Stickeen: The Story of a Dog The Cruise of the Corwin A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf Steep Trails Studies in Sierra Articles and Speeches The National Parks and Forest Reservations Save the Redwoods Snow-storm on Mount Shasta Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park A Rival of the Yosemite The Treasures of the Yosemite Yosemite Glaciers Yosemite in Winter Yosemite in Spring Edward Henry Harriman Edward Taylor Parsons The Hetch Hetchy Valley The Grand Cañon of the Colorado Autobiography The Story of My Boyhood and Youth Letters to a Friend Tribute Alaska Days With John Muir by Samuel Hall Young

Author: Douglas Brinkley
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780062035332
Format: PDF, Kindle
Pages : 592
Category : History
Languages : en
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The Quiet World

by Douglas Brinkley, The Quiet World Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The Quiet World books, In this fascinating follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Wilderness Warrior, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley offers a riveting, expansive look at the past and present battle to preserve Alaska’s wilderness. Brinkley explores the colorful diversity of Alaska’s wildlife, arrays the forces that have wreaked havoc on its primeval arctic refuge—from Klondike Gold Rush prospectors to environmental disasters like the Exxon-Valdez oil spill—and documents environmental heroes from Theodore Roosevelt to Dwight Eisenhower and beyond. Not merely a record of Alaska’s past, Quiet World is a compelling call-to-arms for sustainability, conservationism, and conscientious environmental stewardship—a warning that the land once called Seward’s Folly may go down in history as America’s Greatest Mistake.

Author: James Mitchell Clarke
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN: 9780871562418
Format: PDF, ePub
Pages : 324
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
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The Life And Adventures Of John Muir

by James Mitchell Clarke, The Life And Adventures Of John Muir Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The Life And Adventures Of John Muir books, Relates the life story of the early conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club, and his struggle for the establishment of national parks

Author: John Muir
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 184767447X
Format: PDF
Pages : 224
Category : Nature
Languages : en
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My First Summer In The Sierra

by John Muir, My First Summer In The Sierra Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download My First Summer In The Sierra books, In the summer of 1869, John Muir set out from California's Central Valley with a flock of sheep and trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. His journals describe the summer he spent in what would become Yosemite National Park. Celebrating the Sierra's lizards and mountain lions, tall trees and waterfalls, fierce thunderstorms and bears, Muir raises an awareness of nature to a spiritual dimension.John Muir is internationally acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of modern conservation and his vision, passion and integrity continue to inspire readers today - particularly in this, his best-loved book.

Author: Kim Heacox
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493016652
Format: PDF, ePub
Pages : 256
Category : Nature
Languages : en
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Rhythm Of The Wild

by Kim Heacox, Rhythm Of The Wild Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Rhythm Of The Wild books, Rhythm of the Heart is a compelling memoir about Kim Heacox’s 30+ year relationship with the most iconic landscape in Alaska, a sister book to his 2005 Lyons book The Only Kayak, a PEN USA Literary Award finalist now in its seventh printing. Woven throughout the personal narrative will be stories on the human and natural histories of the Denali National Park, garnished with a conservation polemic, much as Edward Abbey did with Desert Solitaire, and Rick Bass has done with any number of books (that continue to sell well). Heacox will write of Denali through an inspirational arc; to show how a place can touch a life, even save a life, quietly, profoundly, day after day, year after year, and how that saving multiplied by millions of lives over a century makes the world a better place. Heacox makes the argument, through his beautiful and impassioned prose, that we must save these places so they in turn will save us. Denali National Park is the most accessible subarctic sanctuary in the world, and has awakened millions of people to what’s authentic, priceless and true. Any serious student of spirituality and the American landscape must one day address his relationship with Alaska, and once in Alaska, he must confront Denali, the heart of the state, the state of the heart.

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Category : Engineering
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The Engineer

by , The Engineer Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The Engineer books,

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Category : Mineral industries
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Mining And Scientific Press

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Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Category : Christianity
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The Christian Union

by Henry Ward Beecher, The Christian Union Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The Christian Union books,