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Overview
During John Muir s extraordinary life as a conservationist, he traveled most of the American wilderness alone and on foot with only a sackful of stale bread and tea. Major credit is ascribed to him for saving the Grand Canyon and Arizona s Petrified Forest. In 1903, while on a three day camping trip with the president, he convinced Theodore Roosevelt of the importance of a national conservation program. Collected here is the best of Muir s writing, selected from all of his major works originally published by Houghton Mifflin including selections from My First Summer in the Sierra and Travels in Alaska.
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- ISBN-13: 9780618127511
- ISBN-10: 0618127518
- Publisher: Mariner Books
- Publish Date: August 2001
- Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.65 pounds
- Page Count: 352
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