{"product_id":"jazz-age-beauties-the-lost-collection-of-ziegfeld-photographer-alfred-cheney-johnston-1","title":"Selected Writings of John Muir: Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams (Everyman's Library Classics Series)","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"element3\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA new collection of the seminal writings of America's first naturalist and the founder of the modern conservation movement.\u003cbr\u003eAN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY ORIGINAL.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume of John Muir's selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American wilderness. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Story of My Boyhood and Youth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Muir's account of his childhood on a Wisconsin farm, where his interest in nature was first piqued; in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Mountains of California\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e The Yosemite\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTravels in Alaska\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, we follow him on long journeys into stunning mountain ranges and valleys, where he records native flora and fauna and finds proof of his theories of the effect of glaciers on landscape formation. These four full-length works--along with a selection of important essays--helped galvanize American naturalists, and led to the founding of the Sierra Club and several national parks. In these pages, written with meticulous thoroughness and an impassioned lyricism, we witness Muir's awakening to the incredible beauty of our planet, and the honing of an eye turned as acutely toward the scientific as the spiritual.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47630324826290,"sku":"12177","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0617\/4290\/7570\/files\/IMG_0806.jpg?v=1782500036","url":"https:\/\/www.hmflaglerandco.us\/products\/jazz-age-beauties-the-lost-collection-of-ziegfeld-photographer-alfred-cheney-johnston-1","provider":"H.M. Flagler \u0026 Co ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}