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2023.
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"The dramatic and uplifting story of legendary outdoorsman and conservationist John Muir’s journey to become the man who saved Yosemite—from the author of the bestselling Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival. In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir—iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher—meets face-to-face for the first time with his longtime editor Robert Underwood Johnson, an elegant and influential figure at The...
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Oxford University Press
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1999
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Ideas about wilderness are no more constant than the environments they describe. Yet most Americans view the landscapes preserved in national parks as timeless representations of primordial nature. While such ideas inspired the establishment of the first wilderness preserves, they continue to obscure past valuations of park environments. More particularly, the appreciation of pristine landscapes has tended to deny the rich native histories of these...
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