John Muir: Apostle of Nature (The Oklahoma Western Biographies)
Muir Wilderness Area, Muir Peak, and Muir Glacier are only a few of the commemorations to this pioneer preservationist, early biocentrist, cofounder of the Sierra Club, and the inspirational force in the successful campaign to protect the Yosemite Valley wilderness by means of national park designation. Wilkins follows Muir from his Scottish boyhood, clouded by a harsh, fundamentalist father, to an adolescence of arduous farmwork in Wisconsin to a lifelong career of exploration and study of wildernesses, particularly those of the western U.S., and vividly relates some of Muir's more perilous adventures on cliffside and snowfield. Muir was an ingenious inventor, an accomplished naturalist who reconstructed the glaciation that formed Yosemite Valley, and a persuasive writer. His religious passion for pristine wilderness, coupled with intelligence and eloquence, swayed many influential citizens, including Teddy Roosevelt, to take up preservation causes. An affectionate, uncluttered tale of an American folk hero.Brenda Grazis--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.