Earth Heroes, Champions of The Wilderness

Everyone loves a good story and the stories of the environmental champions portrayed in this book are filled with adventures, disappointments, and triumphs. You'll discover how their childhood experiences shaped their lives, and how they grew to become heroes who saved and protected some of the most beautiful wild places on Earth. Some of them are historic, some contemporary. They are Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, Richard St. Barbe Baker, Margaret Murie, David Suzuki, and Wangari Maathai.