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By John Muir,Michael P. Branch

"I am now writing up a few notes, but if they are going to be prepared for e-book i don't know... it is going to be many years ahead of whatever is prepared in publication form." those phrases of John Muir, written in June 1912 to a pal, proved prophetic. The journals and notes to which the good naturalist and environmental determine was once referring have languished, unpublished and nearly untouched, for almost a century. beforehand. the following edited and released for the 1st time, John Muir's go back and forth journals from 1911-12, together with his linked correspondence, ultimately let us learn in his personal phrases the awesome tale of John Muir's final nice journey.

Leaving from Brooklyn, ny, in August 1911, John Muir, on the age of seventy-three and touring on my own, launched into an eight-month, 40,000-mile voyage to South the US and Africa. The 1911-12 journals and correspondence reproduced during this quantity let us commute with him up the nice Amazon, into the jungles of southern Brazil, to snowline within the Andes, via southern and crucial Africa to the headwaters of the Nile, and throughout six oceans and seas with a purpose to succeed in the infrequent forests he had goodbye needed to review. even if this epic trip has got nearly no cognizance from the various commentators on Muir's paintings, Muir himself thought of it one of the most vital of his lifestyles and the success of a decades-long dream.

John Muir's final Journey presents a unprecedented glimpse of a Muir whose pursuits as a naturalist, visitor, and conservationist prolonged well past the mountains of California. It additionally is helping us to determine John Muir as a special type of hero, one whose persistence and highbrow interest carried him into a long way fields of experience whilst he elderly, and as a personal individual and relations guy with real affections, objectives, and fears, not only an iconic consultant of yankee wilderness.

With an creation that units Muir's journey within the context of his existence and paintings, besides bankruptcy introductions and a wealth of explanatory notes, the ebook provides very important dimensions to our appreciation of 1 of America's maximum environmentalists. John Muir's final Journey is a needs to studying for college kids and students of environmental background, American literature, ordinary historical past, and comparable fields, in addition to for naturalists and armchair tourists everywhere.

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