- Gebundene Ausgabe: 400 Seiten
- Verlag: Island Pr; Auflage: annotated edition (Mai 2001)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1559636408
- ISBN-13: 978-1559636407
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,8 x 15,8 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 338.465 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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In August 1911, at the age of 73, John Muir embarked on an eight-month journey to South America and Africa to realize a lifelong dream. He was insistent on traveling alone, and concerned friends and family tried in vain to talk him out of going. Others hoped he would forget the notion altogether. "Have I forgotten the Amazon, Earth's greatest river?" he wrote to a concerned friend. "Never, never, never. It has been burning in me half a century, and will burn forever." Indeed, as early as the 1860s Muir had begun planning a trip to South America, and he could wait no longer.
Arriving in South America via the Caribbean, he went a thousand miles up the Amazon, explored the Atlantic coast, and ventured into the Chilean Andes. He then sailed east and explored the jungles, forests, and plains of south and central Africa and the headwaters of the Nile at Lake Victoria before sailing back to New York via the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and the North Atlantic--a 40,000-mile journey in all.
Though best known for his conservation efforts in California and his creation of the Sierra Club, Muir considered his final journey the most rewarding, writing while in Africa in 1912 that "on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life." These letters and journal entries further prove that his interests as a naturalist and conservationist extended to the entire world; he calls a section of the Amazon the "most interesting forest I have seen in my whole life" and refers to an experience with rare baobab trees in Africa as "one of the greatest of the great tree days of my lucky life."
These writings, published for the first time here, also reveal a different side of Muir, one that editor Michael P. Branch believes is essential to achieving "a full understanding of his accomplishments as a person, writer, and naturalist." Branch explains that Muir's allegiance was not to California or even America, but to Earth, and his view of the planet as a single organism only strengthened as he matured: "The more I see of our goodly Godly star the more plainly comes to sight and mind the truth that it is all one like a face, every feature radiating beauty on the others," he wrote to a friend in 1911. Even in the twilight of his life, Muir never lost his spirit of adventure or sense of wonder for the natural world. --Shawn Carkonen
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An extraordinary man, Muir led an extraordinary life, and as Branch, the eloquent and expert editor of this groundbreaking volume, reveals, there's much yet to be learned about his adventures and writings. Branch, the first Muir scholar to recognize the significance of Muir's last journey, an astounding 40,000-mile voyage to South America and Africa undertaken in 1911-12 when he was 73, has resurrected Muir's notes and journals from that expedition, incredibly vivid and poetic documents that have "languished" unread for 90 years. Branch dubs Muir a "naturalist with global concerns," and, indeed, the brilliant botanist and environmentalist's indelible descriptions of sea, river, sky, and forest reveal the great depth of his incisive and joyous response to life on Earth. Branch interweaves journal entries with the letters Muir sent to his daughters and friends, and each resurrected sentence is a window into Muir's world-embracing and world-altering mind. Donna Seaman
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