Guardians of the valley John Muir and the friendship that saved Yosemite
"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 Century magazine. Before long, the pair, opposites in many ways, decide...
| Main Author: | King, Dean, 1962- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,
2023.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The photo, May, 17, 1903
- Part I Coming to California. Discovering the range of light
- The brag about the West
- A ramble in Hetch Hetchy
- Johnson becomes an editor
- Ice and fire
- Mr. Muir and Mr. Johnson
- Rebirth on Mount Rainier
- Part II Making the mountains glad. Shaken and stirred
- Treasures of the Yosemite
- Proposed : Yosemite National Park
- A red-letter day
- The Sierra Club
- The preaching of pine trees
- Only Uncle Sam can do that
- Part III The water stealers. San Francisco's thirst
- Camping with the President
- Alaska unites Yosemite
- The great 1906 earthquake changed everything
- Irrefragable ignorance
- Fighting thieves & robbers
- Part IV A California water war. The big stick
- We have only begun to fight
- A shocking report
- The nature lovers
- Birth of a movement
- Every park will be attacked
- Immortal friends
- Epilogue.