A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, Hardcover - Donald Worster

Reducere. Spur Awards"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer, " John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me...

Reducere. If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scien...

Reducere. DescriptionA Junior Library Guild Selection John Muir led an adventurous life, starting with his wild and playful boyhood in Scotland to his legend...

Reducere. John Muir: passionate, eccentric, inventive, tenacious. All these words together add up to the story of one of America's most beloved conservationi...

Reducere. Dwight Lyman Moody was the greatest evangelist of the 19th century. In the pre-television era, he traveled more than one million miles to preach th...

Former Archdeacon of London David Meara explores some of John Betjeman's favourite churches, cathedrals and secular buildings.Publisher: Amberley P...

Reducere. A potent combination of art, science, and boundless enthusiasm, the latestart instruction book from John Muir Laws (The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds...

DescriptionIntroduce your baby to the fascinating adventures of famous naturalist John Muir. John Muir was a Scottish-born American naturalist, aut...

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Reducere. * Muir is perhaps the nation's greatest conservationist * His books reveal why he devoted his life to preserving the West's greatest natural treasu...

Reducere. 'How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over.'John Muir is k...

Reducere. Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it...

Description"The tendency nowadays to wander in wilderness is delightful to see. Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginni...

Field studies form the backbone of research, teaching, policy and advisory work. For the first time, a single textbook provides an overview of the ...

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The name of John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in America and Britain. Combining observation with a sense o...

Supervision provides a positive space for compassion, inquiry, reflection, and above all development. The chapters in this book are written from a ...

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The author's passion for snowdrops shines through in this lavishly illustrated book for novice snowdrop gardeners and galanthophiles alikePublisher...

Reducere. A new edition of Muir's writings that places his environmentalist ideals alongside his damaging prejudices Essayist. Preservationist. Mountain man....

Reducere. Historians have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation's least effective heads of state. In President without a Party--the first ful...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1787, the Royal Navy ship H.M.S. Bounty, captained by William Bligh, set sail for Tahiti in search of breadfruit plants. Soon after l...

Reducere. DescriptionA Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf is a classic travelogue by John Muir, charting his journeys through Kentucky, Tennessee, the Deep South...

Reducere. In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir became America's most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and ma...

Reducere. In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic c...

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With its focus on the normal and abnormal mechanical interactions between the muscles and joints of the body, Kinesiology of the Musculoskeletal Sy...

Reducere. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is a stirring autobiography by the great American naturalist, John Muir."When I was a boy in Scotland I was fond ...

Reducere. In an era and an area notable for badmen and gunslingers, John Wesley Hardin was perhaps the most notorious. Considered by many of his contemporari...

Reducere. DescriptionNorth America's fastest mammal, the pronghorn, can accelerate explosively from a standing start to a top speed of 60 miles per hour - bu...

Expanding on the philosophy and methods of The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling, John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren have developed the fir...

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Reducere. Jesus told His disciples to "teach them to observe all that I have commanded you." In Matthew alone there are 256 imperatives from the lips of Jesu...

Reducere. This biography of the writer of Amazing Grace takes us on a journey worthy of a Hollywood extravaganza with swashbuckling adventures on the high se...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): James AdamsIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 396Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 490 x 268 x 47Co...

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DescriptionAncient Egypt wasn't all pyramids, sphinxes and gold sarcophagi. For your average Egyptian, life was tough, and work was hard, conducted...

Reducere. In the classic nature work, The Yosemite, the great American naturalist, John Muir, describes the Yosemite valley's geography and the myriad types ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

John Muir's Memoir of How He Became The Wandering NaturalistThis deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of John Muir's 1913 The Story Of My Boyh...

Reducere. Description'Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away ... God has cared for these trees ... but he cannot save them from fools - only Uncle ...

Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987, Blenheim is the only non-royal house in England to hold the title of palace. As the storied reside...

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DescriptionJohn Andr was head of the British Army's Secret Service in North America as the Revolutionary War entered its most bitter and, ultimatel...