
John Muir
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Mary Colwell is an award winning TV, radio and internet producer, who makes programmes for the BBC and the independent sector, mainly on nature and the environment. She is also a presenter and public speaker, a feature writer for The Tablet and a consultant on the relationship between religion and the natural world. In the last 4 years, she has won 14 major broadcasting awards, including a Gold for the Best Internet Production in the Sony Radio Academy Awards.
Jonathan Porritt (Foreword by)
Sir Jonathon Porritt is an environmentalist and writer, a former Chair of the UK Ecology Party (now the Green Party) and a co-founder of Fprum for the Future.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 9
FOREWORD 10
INTRODUCTION 14
CHAPTER 1 DUNBAR BOY 19
CHAPTER 2 EARLY AMERICAN DAYS 37
CHAPTER 3 THE YEARS OF LABOUR 55
CHAPTER 4 LEARNING AND INVENTING 70
CHAPTER 5 THE TRANSITION YEARS 85
CHAPTER 6 A LONG WAY FROM HOME 101
CHAPTER 7 THE BEST LAID PLANS 119
CHAPTER 8 COMING HOME 138
CHAPTER 9 JOHN OF THE MOUNTAINS 154
CHAPTER 10 OUT OF THE WILDERNESS 177
CHAPTER 11 ALASKAN ADVENTURES 197
CHAPTER 12 PREPARING FOR THE FIGHT 217
CHAPTER 13 THE LAST BATTLES 235
EPILOGUE JOHN MUIR TODAY 259
BIBLIOGRAPHY 271
INDEX 284
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