Muir, age 73 and traveling alone, embarked on an eight-month, 40,000-mile voyage to South America and Africa. His journals and correspondence allow readers to travel with him and provide a rare glimpse of a man with interests as a naturalist, traveler, and conservationist. Illustrations.
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Muir, age 73 and traveling alone, embarked on an eight-month, 40,000-mile voyage to South America and Africa. His journals and correspondence allow readers to travel with him and provide a rare glimpse of a man with interests as a naturalist, traveler, and conservationist. Illustrations.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. A very good copy with brown cloth spine on orange paper boards and gilt titles on spine The book itself is in near fine condition, but it is ex-library, and has library labels on the front endpaper and the rear pastedown, making it just very good The dust jacket is actually near fine, being in a protective mylar cover, with the only exception being a library bar code label on the top of the back (The green library label visible in the photo on the lower spine is actually on the mylar cover and not on the dust jacket itself) 337 pp.
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With Dust Jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 337 p. Contains: Illustrations. Pioneers of Conservation. Audience: General/trade. includes dust jacket-mint condition
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New in New jacket. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing. From the Pioneers of Conservation Series. 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. '
