A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir [Audiobook] download free by Donald Worster
- Listen audiobook: A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
- Author: Donald Worster
- Release date: 2011/2/5
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780199782246
- Rating: 7.87 of 10
- Votes: 813
- Review by: Miller Renner
- Review rating: 7.22 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/16
- Duration: 6H55M11S in 256 kbps (108.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-17
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, FLAC, WMA, MPEG-4 SLS, MPEG4, WAV (compression TAR.XZ, ZIP, RAR, AZW, TAR.7Z, DEB, CHM)
- Total pages original book: 544
- Includes a PDF summary of 48 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 36M42S (9.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Donald Worster's A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written. It is the first to be based on Muir's full private correspondence and to meet modern scholarly standards, yet it is also full of rich detail and personal anecdote, uncovering the complex inner life behind the legend of the solitary mountain man. It traces Muir from his boyhood in Scotland and frontier Wisconsin to hisadult life in California right after the Civil War up to his death on the eve of World War I. It explores his marriage and family life, his relationship with his abusive father, his many friendships with the humble and famous (including Theodore Roosevelt and Ralph Waldo Emerson), and his role in founding themodern American conservation movement. Inspired by Muir's passion for the wilderness, Americans created a long and stunning list of national parks and wilderness areas, Yosemite most prominent among them. Yet the book also describes a Muir who was a successful fruit-grower, a talented scientist and world-traveler, a doting father and husband, and a self-made man of wealth and political influence. The winner of numerous book awards, A Passion for Nature was also named a Best Book of2008 by Washington Post Book World. It is the first comprehensive biography of Muir to appear in six decades.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Conservation Of Wildlife & Habitats, History Of The Americas, Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering, Natural History Books, Biography: Historical, Political & Military, Conservation Of The Environment
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 23.94 USD
- Dimensions: 156x235x37mm
- Weight: 758g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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