Tras el nombre de John Muir, poco conocido en España, se esconde la figura del más famoso e influyente naturalista y ambientalista de los Estados Unidos. Considerado como el «padre del sistema de parques nacionales», inspir&oacut...
A fascinating autobiography of John Muir (1838-1914)-founder and first president of the Sierra Club, Americaâs oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization.Muir is renowned to the present-day as one of the...
Influential naturalist, author, and co-founder of the Sierra Club, John Muir loved the outdoors. His writings and advocacy for protection of the pristine wilderness of the American west were vital in helping to preserve noted sites of natural beauty inclu...
This deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of John Muirs 1917 The Cruise Of The Corwin recounts John Muirs 1881 adventure on the sailing ship Corwin along the shores of Alaska and the Arctic in search of Lt. George De Long and the lost Jeanette expedi...
âWhen a man plants a tree, he plants himself. Every root is an anchor, over which he rests with grateful interest, and becomes sufficiently calm to feel the joy of living.â
âMany a beautiful plant cultivated to deformity, and arranged in strict geometrical beds, the whole pretty affair a laborious failure side by side with divine beauty.â
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf is a classic travelogue by John Muir, charting his journeys through Kentucky, Tennessee, the Deep South, the Florida Keys and Cuba.Muirâs journey took place in the late nineteenth century: we hear exquisi...
2018 Reprint of Ten Essays originally written by Muir and published in various periodicals and newspapers. This selection reprints ten classic essays by Nature writer and activist John Muir. Part of John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not...