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Summary: Rachel Carson, founder of the modern environmental movement, began work on her seminal book Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT. Effective against crop pests as well as insects that transmitted human diseases such as typhus and malaria, DDT had at first appeared safe. But as its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2012
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Summary: "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 to venture to Yosemite Valley, the magnificent site where twenty years earlier, Muir experienced a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUIR, JOHN KINClavreul, Denis
Summary: "An artist's uniquely personal journey across Audubon's America In the nineteenth century, ornithologist and painter John James Audubon set out to create a complete pictorial record of North American birdlife, traveling from Louisiana and the Florida Keys to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the cliffs of the Yellowstone River. The resulting work, The Birds of America, stands as a monumental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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Summary: Nineteenth-century scientist David Starr Jordan built one of the most important fish specimen collections ever seen, until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake shattered his life's work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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Summary: John Muir, the most famous naturalist in American history, protected Yosemite, co-founded the Sierra Club, and is sometimes called the Father of the National Parks. A poor immigrant, self-taught, individualistic, and skeptical of institutions, his idealistic belief in the spiritual benefits of holistic natural systems led him to a philosophy of preserving wilderness unimpaired. Gifford Pinchot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environment ClaytonMuir, John
Contents: The story of my boyhood and youth -- A thousand mile walk to the Gulf -- My first summer in the Sierra -- Travels in Alaska -- Stickeen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate Classics 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUIR, JOHN MUIMuir, John
Summary: "Like Muir himself, Essential Muir packs an astounding range of experience into a lithe frame: ecstatic yet scientific descriptions of Yosemite; the heartrending tale of that "wee, hairy, sleekit beastie," Stickeen; reflections on the society of Eskimos; Muir's touching tribute, after a lifetime of wonder, to the mighty baobob trees of Africa; and more. Fred D. White's selection from Muir's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.7 MUIBackes, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OLSON, SIGURD BACWalls, Laura Dassow
Summary: Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, Walls presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOREAU, HENRY DAVID WALWorster, Donald
Summary: A definitive biography traces the life of John Muir from his boyhood in Scotland up to his death on the eve of World War I and offers important insights into the passionate nature of America's first great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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Summary: A photographic chronicle of the life of John Muir, co-founder of the Sierra Club, tracing his life from his austere Scottish childhood through his embrace of the natural world, and discussing some of the experiences he had during his explorations of wild places around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 EHRRhodes, Richard
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents this fully authorized--and timely-biography of the Harvard biologist and naturalist who has become a leading voice on the crucial importance to all life of biodiversity and has worked tirelessly to synthesize the fields of science and the humanities in a fruitful way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILSON, E.O. RHOTaliaferro, John
Summary: "Before Rachel Carson, there was George Bird Grinnell -- the man whose prophetic vision did nothing less than launch American conservation. George Bird Grinnell, the son of a New York merchant, saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin lands and the formerly vast buffalo herds decimated, the country faced a crossroads: Could it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRINNELL, GEORGE BIRD TALSims, Michael
Summary: "The Adventures of Henry Thoreau-chronicling the ten years in his life beginning with Harvard in 1837 and ending as he walked away from Walden Pond after living in his long dreamed-of cabin for only two years--tells the dramatic (and at times heartbreaking) story of how a troubled young man found a meaningful life in a tempestuous era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOREAU, HENRY DAVID SIMMuir, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 1993