The Story of My Boyhood and Youth: An Autobiography

A new collection of the seminal writings of America's first naturalist and the founder of the modern conservation movement.<BR>AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY ORIGINAL.<BR><BR>This volume of John Muir's selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American wilderness. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is Muir's account of his childhood on a Wisconsin farm, where his interest in nature was first piqued; in The Mountains of California, The Yosemite, and Travels in Alaska, 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.

Eine literarische Wanderung durch die amerikanischen Gebirge - ein Grundstein des Nature Writing'Die Berge Kaliforniens' sind ein Grundstein des Nature Writing, zu dessen bedeutendsten Vertretern neben R. W. Emerson und H. D. Thoreau zweifelsohne John Muir zählt. Durch einen Unfall kurzzeitig erblindet, fürchtete er, die Schönheit der Welt nie wieder erblicken zu können. Nach seiner Genesung befasste er sich mit den Auswirkungen der Kolonisierung auf die Natur und entwickelte eine Vielzahl ökologischer Ideen. So wurde er zum ¿Vater der Nationalparks¿; auf ihn sind unter anderem die Naturschutzorganisation Sierra Club und der Yosemite-Nationalpark zurückzuführen. In seinem 1894 erstmals erschienenen Hauptwerk verbindet John Muir geologische und botanische Studien mit philosophischen Reflexionen und bettet sie in eine Erzählung ein, deren grandiose Naturbeschreibungen eine Welt wiedererwecken, die zu Muirs Lebzeiten bereits im Untergang begriffen war. In 'Die Berge Kaliforniens', der brillanten deutschen Übersetzung von Jürgen Brôcan, begegnen wir einer unberührten, wilden und gleichzeitig auch schutzbedürftigen Natur.

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