American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy

by Stephen R. Fox

John Muir and His Legacy is at once a biography of this remarkable man--the first work to make unrestricted use of all of Muir's manuscripts and personal papers--and a history of the century-old fight to save the natural environment. Stephen Fox traces the conservation movement's diverse, colorful, and tumultuous history, from the successful campaign to establish Yosemite National Park in 1890 to the movement's present day concerns of nuclear...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299106349
• ISBN13: 9780299106348
• Release Date: February 1986
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"