JOHN MUIR AND HIS LEGACY; The American Conservation Movement
Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company, 1981. photographs. First Edition. Quarter cloth and boards. 8vo, dark tan buckram spine and light tan boards, dust jacket (price clipped), reproduction of Meserve photograph of Muir as frontispiece & two 8-page sections of other B&W photos, 436-pages. Very Fine / Very Fine. Item #372
"Perhaps the most legendary woodsman in American history, John Muir (1838-1914) was a Scottish-born naturalist, an eccentric nature lover who would set out for the wilderness for days on end with only tea, oatmeal, and bread in his pack, and sing entranced from the tops of waterfalls. A spellbinding conversationalist whose acquaintances included Emerson and Theodore Roosevelt, he won the hearts of the eastern establishment intellectuals with his writings from the Sierra. More than anyone else, John Muir was responsible for our national park system, and the American conservation movement is very much his legacy"--jacket blurb.
Price: $35.00