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Our National Parks(Illustrated Edition). E-book. Formato PDF John Muir - Ionlineshopping.Com, 2019 -
A collection of essays for The Atlantic that has lots of evocative description of the Western parks. One is constantly reminded that Muir was above a ll a botanist, with essentially lists of all the flora. The writing comes more to life when he describes his actual travels and encounters with other living animals, people included. Wonderful book to help us appreciate what God has created for us. His writing is poetic. This book had some great passages. Wonderful descriptions of the scenery, animals, etc that our national parks have to offer. A real exploration of beautiful landscapes, real life adventures in the great outdoors, John Muir is an inspiration! Contents The wild parks and forest reservations of the West -- The Yellowstone National Park -- The Yosemite National Park -- The forests of the Yosemite Park -- The wild gardens of the Yosemite Park -- Among the animals of the Yosemite -- Among the birds of the Yosemite -- The fountains and streams of the Yosemite National Park -- The Sequoia And General Grant National Parks -- The American forests.
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf(Illustrated Edition). E-book. Formato PDF John Muir - Ionlineshopping.Com, 2019 -
“John Muir, Earth-planet, Universe.”—These words are written on the inside cover of the notebook from which the contents of this volume have been taken. They reflect the mood in which the late author and explorer undertook his thousand-mile walk to the Gulf of Mexico a half-century ago. No less does this refreshingly cosmopolitan address, which might have startled any finder of the book, reveal the temper and the comprehensiveness of Mr. Muir’s mind. He never was and never could be a parochial student of nature. Even at the early age of twenty-nine his eager interest in every aspect of the natural world had made him a citizen of the universe. While this was by far the longest botanical excursion which Mr. Muir made in his earlier years, it was by no means the only one. He had botanized around the Great Lakes, in Ontario, and through parts of Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois. On these expeditions he had disciplined himself to endure hardship, for his notebooks disclose the fact that he often went hungry and slept in the woods, or on the open prairies, with no cover except the clothes he wore. “Oftentimes,” he writes in some unpublished biographical notes, “I had to sleep out without blankets, and also without supper or breakfast. But usually I had no great difficulty in finding a loaf of bread in the widely scattered clearings of the farmers. With one of these big backwoods loaves I was able to wander many a long, wild mile, free as the winds in the glorious forests and bogs, gathering plants and feeding on God’s abounding, inexhaustible spiritual beauty bread. Only once in my long Canada wanderings was the deep peace of the wilderness savagely broken. It happened in the maple woods about midnight, when I was cold and my fire was low. I was awakened by the awfully dismal howling of the wolves, and got up in haste to replenish the fire.”
Steep Trails / California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon. E-book. Formato PDF John Muir - Ionlineshopping.Com, 2018 -
John Muir 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 of California, have been read by millions. Spanning nearly three decades of John Muir’s work and showing the great conservationist author at his best, this collection of two dozen magazine articles and letters focuses on his travels to the lakes, canyons, and mountains of the American West, including the Great Salt Lake, the San Gabriel Mountains, Mount Rainer, and the Grand Canyon.