John Muir : the Scotsman who saved America's wild places /: the Scotsman who saved America's wild places. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mary Colwell.
• Authors: Colwell, Mary
• Other Names: Porritt, Jonathan writer of supplementary textual content.
• Contents: Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 9; FOREWORD 10; INTRODUCTION 14; CHAPTER 1 DUNBAR BOY 19; CHAPTER 2 EARLY AMERICAN DAYS 37; CHAPTER 3 THE YEARS OF LABOUR 55; CHAPTER 4 LEARNING AND INVENTING 70; CHAPTER 5 THE TRANSITION YEARS 85; CHAPTER 6 A LONG WAY FROM HOME 101; CHAPTER 7 THE BEST LAID PLANS 119; CHAPTER 8 COMING HOME 138; CHAPTER 9 JOHN OF THE MOUNTAINS 154; CHAPTER 10 OUT OF THE WILDERNESS 177; CHAPTER 11 ALASKAN ADVENTURES 197; CHAPTER 12 PREPARING FOR THE FIGHT 217; CHAPTER 13 THE LAST BATTLES 235; EPILOGUE JOHN MUIR TODAY 259; BIBLIOGRAPHY 271; INDEX 284
• Edition: New edition
• Publisher Details: Oxford : Lion
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 333.72092; Environmentalists -- United States -- Biography; Environmentalists -- Scotland -- Biography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780745956671
• Related ISBNs: 9780745956664
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