A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf
By: John Muir ; edited and with an introduction by William Frederic Badè ; foreword by Peter Jenkins ; with illustrations.
Contributors: Badè, William Frederic, 1871-1936
Edition: 1st Mariner Books ed
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.; Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Muir, John, -- 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Southern States; Muir, John, -- 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Cuba; Natural history -- Southern States; Natural history -- Cuba; Naturalists -- United States -- Biography; Naturalists -- United States -- Diaries; Southern States -- Description and travel; Southern States -- History -- 1865-1877; Cuba -- Description and travel
Genres: Biography; Diaries
Description: "Here is the adventure that started John Muir on a lifetime of discovery. Taken from his earliest journals, this book records Muir's walk in 1867 from Indiana across Kentucky. Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to the Gulf Coast. In his distinct and wonderful style, Muir shows us the wilderness, as well as the towns and people, of the South immediately after the Civil War.".

"Founder of the Sierra Club, and its president until his death, Muir was a spirit so free that all he did to prepare for an expedition was to "throw some tea and bread into an old sack and jump over the back Fence." In a world confronting the deterioration of the natural environment and an ever-quickening pace of life, the attraction of Muir's writings has never been greater."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A Mariner book."

Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1916

Includes index