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My First Summer in the Sierra: The Journal of a Soul on Fire (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for My First Summer in the SierraThe name John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both America and Britain. Muir's writings of his summer in what would become the great national park of Yosemite in California's Sierra valley raise a close awareness of nature to a spiritual dimension.
Full description- Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
- Published: 20 September 2007
- Format: Paperback 736 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Environmentalist Thought & Ideology | Natural History | Travel Writing
- ISBN 13: 9781841957586 ISBN 10: 1841957585
- Sales rank: 659,168
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Full description for My First Summer in the Sierra
The name 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 a pioneer of American conservation and his passion, discipline and vision still inspire. Combining acute observation with a sense of inner discovery, Muir's writings of his summer in what would become the great national park of Yosemite in California's Sierra valley raise a close awareness of nature to a spiritual dimension. His journal provides a unique marriage of natural history, lyrical prose and amusing anecdote, retaining a freshness, intensity and brutal honesty which will amaze the modern reader.
