[PDF] Squirrel And John Muir eBook

Author : Emily Arnold McCully
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 2004-09-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780374336974

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An outstanding book for young naturalists Floy Hutchings, also known as Squirrel, is the daughter of the man who opened the first hotel in the Yosemite Valley in the 1860s. She has to fend for herself much of the time and is considered wild by her family and her father's guests. When the future naturalist John Muir is hired as a carpenter, Floy becomes his inquisitive shadow as he builds himself a cabin over a stream, talks to flowers, and listens to snow. Floy, determined never to grow up because she'd have to be a lady, and Muir, searching nature for a way to live free of society's expectations, are primed to find common ground. In this story set against a backdrop of watercolor paintings that vividly capture the beauty of Yosemite, Floy learns to see the world through John Muir's eyes.

Author : John Muir
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become a famed conservationist when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, not long after the Civil War. He was so captivated by what he saw that he decided to devote his life to the glorification and preservation of this magnificent wilderness. "My First Summer in the Sierra," whose heart is the diary Muir kept while tending sheep in Yosemite country, enticed thousands of Americans to visit this magical place, and resounds with Muir's regard for the "divine, enduring, unwasteable wealth" of the natural world. A classic of environmental literature, "My First Summer in the Sierra" continues to inspire readers to seek out such places for themselves and make them their own.

Author : H. Reed Sanderson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 44,14 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816527687

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Papers from a symposium on the endangered Mt. Graham red squirrel, called in response to the building of an observatory on the mountain by the University of Arizona, offers a comprehensive picture of the ecological conditions and the impacts of natural and man-mad changes on the squirrel and its mountain home.

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781597143189

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"Peppered throughout famed naturalist John Muir's published work, articles, and letters and journals are ... descriptions of animals and stories about his encounters with them"--

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,53 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Nature
ISBN :

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This book features a collection of John Muir's essays, all revolving around animals.

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 22,98 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1447488385

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First published in 1901, “Our National Parks” is a fantastic guide to the wild mountain forest reservations and national parks of the United States, exploring their beauty and usefulness in an attempt to encourage contemporary readers to go out and enjoy the natural wonders of North America. John Muir (1838–1914) was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, author, and glaciologist who famously fought to preserve wilderness in the United States of America. Muir's work describing his adventures in nature have been read by millions the world over and his activism has helped to conserve such important places of natural beauty as the Yosemite Valley and Sequoia National Park in America. Contents include: “The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West”, “The Yellowstone National Park”, “The Yosemite National Park”, “The Forests of the Yosemite Park”, “The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park”, “Among the Animals of the Yosemite”, “Among the Birds of the Yosemite”, “The Fountains and Streams of the Yosemite National Park”, etc. Other notable works by this author include: “My First Summer in the Sierra” (1911), “Steep Trails” (1918), and “The Story of My Boyhood and Youth” (1913). A Thousand Fields is republishing this classic book now complete with a biographical sketch of the author.