{"product_id":"9781841586977","title":"Journeys in the Wilderness: A John Muir Reader","description":"A true Renaissance man, Muir was: inventor, mountaineer, explorer, botanist, geologist, nature-writer and environmental campaigner; many would add: Christian-mystic, visionary and wilderness-sage. His writings are the fountain-head from which the American conservation movement erupted, setting the agenda, the ethos and the argument for the creation of a vast National Park system. Muir did more than simply describe the grizzly bears, the giant redwoods and luminous landscapes of California's High Sierra; as the founder of the Sierra Club, his endless campaigns saved them for all posterity. This new selection includes Muir's finest autobiographical books: \u003ci\u003eThe Story of My Boyhood and Youth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy First Summer in the Sierra\u003c\/i\u003e along with the best of his climbing and conservation essays from: \u003ci\u003eThe Mountains of California\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOur National Parks\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Yosemite and Steep Trails\u003c\/i\u003e. It offers a rounded portrait of Muir as a giant of American letters; of a visionary, whose passionate defence of 'everything that is Wild', still reverberates through today's environmental movement, inspiring new generations of activists and all who love the natural world.","brand":"Birlinn, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032755847408,"sku":"9781841586977","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781841586977_p0.jpg?v=1763744000","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781841586977","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}