Book description
Introduced by Graham White. 'When we try to pick out anything by
itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.' John
Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra 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 1838, Muir is famed as the father of American
conservation. This collection, including the rarely seen Stickeen,
presents the finest of Muir's writings, and imparts a rounded portrait
of a man whose generosity, passion, discipline and vision are an
inspiration to this day. Combining acute observation with a sense of
inner discovery, Muir's writings of his travels though some of the
greatest landscapes on Earth, including the Carolinas, Florida, Alaska
and those lands which were to become the great National Parks of
Yosemite and the Sierra Valley, raise an awareness of nature to a
spiritual dimension. These journals provide a unique marriage of natural
history with lyrical prose and often amusing anecdotes, retaining a
freshness, intensity and brutal honesty which will amaze the modern
reader.
