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A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 1916; vuoden 2017 painos)

Tekijä: John Muir, Peter Jenkins (Beteiligter)

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Here is the adventure that started John Muir on a lifetime of discovery. Taken from his earliest journals, this book records Muir's walk in 1867 from Indiana across Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to the Gulf Coast. In his distinct and wonderful style, Muir shows us the wilderness, as well as the towns and people, of the South immediately after the Civil War.… (lisätietoja)
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Teoksen nimi:A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Kirjailijat:John Muir
Muut tekijät:Peter Jenkins (Beteiligter)
Info:Boston Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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I've read a bunch of John Muir's books about his travels. While this isn't his best writing (or his most interesting topic,) his travels down south are entertaining enough to make this a worth while read. ( )
  amerynth | Oct 1, 2021 |
I had hoped to enjoy the words of the great John Muir more, but I'm still glad I gave it a shot. I suspect this was at the beginning of his writings, or his inspiration, as he really hit his stride towards the end. ( )
  hopebarton2014 | Jun 15, 2020 |
** Following description by Harry Latimer, Olympia, Washington

One of a kind, rare large paper limited edition

Verso of Title Page states: "550 copies of this large-paper edition were printed at the Riverside Press at Cambridge, in October, 1916. 500 copies are for sale. This is copy number 320." As shown.
INSCRIBED BY MRS. E. H. HARRIMAN (MARY)

Both E. H. (Edward Henry) and Mary Williamson (Averell) had a genuinely warm close and productive association with our Homeboy, and it would be difficult for me to state, between the two of them, which one was greater.
John Muir's friendship--and partnership with E. H. and Mary was one of the most important in his later life. That later life when Muir was changing the very landscape of The West with words. A new way of seeing. Our National Parks are a new way of seeing.

For more clarity in attempting a more truthful understanding of the Harriman's relationship, it is helpful to set aside, for the moment, the patriarchal bias as it has come to us through the usual history (his-story) written in textbooks.
In other words, a world run by men. A history becomes a history of what men did. With E. H. and Mary it is more accurate to use the word partnership. Mary was no mere bystander to history, a bit of which can be demonstrated here.
Your search engine will take you to a multitude of rare surviving letters between both E.H. and Mary to and from Muir, photos of them together, gorgeous photos and videos of Arden House, Pelican Bay, Southern California, Idaho, Southern Pacific Railroad narratives, studies, and institutional collections, along with PBS, if you like documentary movies on Muir, Harriman and The Harriman Alaska Expedition. The whole Harriman Family were onboard passengers for the Journey.

The letters back and forth between Muir and the Harriman children are of particular interest, partly so in demonstrating Muir's own lively childlike sense of wonder and natural affinity for the young, and they for him. These surviving letters online are a special delight to read. The Harriman Alaska Expedition. Klamath Lake. Yosemite. Hetch Hetchy. Arden House. The Ranch in Idaho. National Parks. Their children. for starters...

Also, it was the Harriman's talented & persistent private secretary, under explicit orders, who followed Muir around while he was on a visit to Harriman's "country lodge" at Klamath Lake. Muir talked, non-stop as usual, and the verbatim transcript finally became Muir's uniquely worded The Story Of My Boyhood and Youth. A book if otherwise left to Muir alone, late in life, busy and tired, would not likely have been completed for us to read today.

E. H. and Mary Harriman are not the usual thing one first associates with John Muir. That would be a mistake if not considered at all, especially in light of Muir's stated singular mission in later life to "do something for the wildness", unprotected and fast disappearing. This is Muir at work, the nuts and bolts of preservation, outside the mountains, important practical matters to him.

One does not easily grasp an association between E. H. and Mary and John Muir unless one considers how power moves in the world of money, enormous wealth, and Muir's own practical & political savvy. Political power. Muir needed that, his own powerful writings not enough, and he knew it.

At the same time, as evidence shows, Muir maintained a genuine friendship, almost familial, with Mary Harriman ("Mrs. H.") and later often as ("Sister Mary") & family, including the kids, even years after E. H. died.
Muir wrote only one book on one person: E. H. E. H. quote: "Cooperation means "Do as I say, and do it damn quick." Muir on E. H. : "I don't think Mr. Harriman is very rich. He has not as much money as I have. I have all I want and he has not." E. H. in response: "I never cared for money except as power for work...getting into partnership with Nature in doing good." This must have been music to Muir's ears, hearing that. Muir had found two partners.

(Muir was like that you know, a tactful teaser, in order to find out, for one thing, if a person was too full of themselves. He did it-cautiously-with Harriman as demonstrated above, along with another one on Harriman hunting bears in Alaska. For Theodore Roosevelt, as president, it was his hunting too. John Burroughs got it over his stubborn writing about no glaciers in Yosemite and his general homebodyness. Burroughs was lost in the West, away from home in the Catskills. Muir got away with it with all of them, until Gifford Pinchot, when he let fly with both barrels-publicly-in the lobby of a Seattle Hotel over forests, preservation and sheep. Pinchot deserved it in retrospect, most now agree.)
Through the political influence of both E. H. & Mary in considering just one place, (and the still not even now fully understood role of their "associates", particularly in the bowels of the California Legislature, we have today The Yosemite as a fully protected National Park. Yep, the Harrimans helped get us The Park.

That was the time when Time moved at the speed of a horse. Then came the Railroads, changing everything. The Harrimans owned or controlled or influenced a great big chunk of all of them across the USA. In California it was the all important Southern Pacific Railroad.

Mary inherited-it all-after E.H.'s death in 1909 and began a life of giving a great big chunk of it away. For starters, in 1910 she gave away to the State Of New York 10,000 acres (out of the 40 km2 Arden House estate), designated along with a million bucks maintenance for a State Park, which for generations since has been a wildlife refuge and a nearby vital retreat for the thankful human denizens of New York City.

Mary also donated to the welfare of The Yosemite National Park... and fully supported till the end, Muir's noble efforts in the attempt to block the damming of the wild Tuolumne River in the Hetch Hetchy Valley of Yosemite National Park.
Around this time, Muir got free passage, and watchful care-mostly unknown to him-as an old guy, aboard the Harriman owned Steamship Lines while he traveled the world. Yep, they owned Steamship Lines too. This was Mary's doing. His last trip to see what Muir called his address one last time:

"John Muir, Earth-planet, Universe." as inscribed on his original journal that constitutes this later book.
Returned, back in Martinez California he was reinvigorated for his final desperate plunge into the violation, that abyss of lies of others: Hetch Hetchy. Another Yosemite then, now underwater.

In one of Muir's last long trips made anywhere, the year before he died, Muir accepted Mary Harriman's invitation to him to join her and the family at their Railroad Ranch in Idaho. Muir arrived August 17, 1913, greeted by Mary, and stayed with the Harriman clan for 10 days. Upon arriving he had what he described as a "second breakfast" with the family. Muir had long talks with Mary, some of it, without any doubt, on Hetch Hetchy, which by this time had practically consumed him, and in time some said, would kill him. He walked, wrote in his journal & sketched...and talked... Also, in one of his last, Muir left us a Journal of those 10 days with the Clan: "Island Park Idaho 1913" available to all for online viewing.

***In 1977 Averell Harriman, Mary & E.H's son, deeded to the State Of Idaho for free what would become, as it is today Harriman State Park. The land is part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, one of the most vital wild places of refuge on Planet Earth. Mary taught her children well.

I met Averell Harriman by chance, much accomplished in his own right, late in his long life and early in mine. It was around the time he was re-printing his Daddy's Book written by Muir. I don't remember much, except his boyish expressions of sheer delight at retelling of his meeting, as a kid, with Muir on The Harriman Expedition in 1899. He got to hear the story of Stickeen live, in person. Wow. Imagine that. Averell was then the sole living survivor of the Expedition.

To me, the Harrimans rank right up there with the Roosevelts, Carnegie and Kennedys for turning private gain into public good. Andrew Carnegie: "The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced." This Nation of Immigrants, most coming ashore dirt poor, like the above person named.

Description: E. H. Harriman Arden Bookplate on pastedown. Signed and inscribed on ffep by Mrs. (Mary) Harriman, dated Dec 1917, 1 E. 69th St. (NYC residence). Light green paper boards with green cloth spine, leather label with gilt stamping. Frontispiece is a gorgeous hand colored photogravure. Frontispiece from a watercolor by Amelia M.Watson.
Photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, Theodore Eitel, Bradley & Rulofson, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, others, & sketches from Muir's Journal.

Condition: Clean & bright & squared & tight. Partially uncut pages. Unusually clean for a Large Paper Edition. Corners not bumped. Lightest soiling to green cover and bottom & top edges. Rubbing wear to leather label. Leather label on spine bumped, with slight loss and professionally repaired. Spine darkening and shelf wear consistent with age, careful use and handling. ( )
  lazysky | Mar 6, 2018 |
“Arching grasses come one by one; seeds come flying on downy wings, silent as fate, to give life’s dearest beauty for the ashes of art; and strong evergreen arms laden with ferns and tillandsia drapery are spread over all - Life at work everywhere, obliterating all memory of the confusion of man.” p.71

Original green cloth, color pictorial paste-down painting of Florida sunset on front board, lettered in white, top edge gilt. Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including a frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; map. Light wear head and tail spine, some diminishment to the white lettering on spine, bumped lower corners. Text & illustrations bright and clean, binding secure, no foxing, stains, marks or label. Size: 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Part manuscript journal, portion of a letter, and a published article providing Muir's botanical excursion from Kentucky to Florida in 1867, trip to Cuba, voyage to San Francisco via Panama, and first year in California. Muir's journal ends with his arrival in California in April 1868. The autobiographical narratives are connected by excerpting his brief account of his first visit to Yosemite Valley from a letter to Mrs. Carr, and a description of Twenty Hill Hollow (first printed in the OVERLAND MONTHLY for July 1872) where Muir spent much of his first year in California.

Kimes states: "Muir's early writing included in this volume is important in disclosing his nature-oriented philosophy of life and the direction in which it was taking him."
  lazysky | Feb 25, 2018 |
I enjoyed this book which was composed by John Muir from notes he had made while on his travels. Although the name of the book would suggest he had traveled only to the Gulf Coast, in fact, he also traveled to Cuba and California, including the Yosemite Valley. Those two portions of the book were more interesting to me than his original walk. This man was not only a traveler, biologist, budding ecologist, and writer, but also a very brave one to travel so far into areas totally unknown to him without any companionship or advance assistance from those in the area he was traveling to. I'm sure that in the 21st Century if someone were to repeat the journey, to be able to get lodging in someone's home by walking up to their house and asking would be totally impossible. Almost no one, today, trusts in the basic goodness of mankind. ( )
  whymaggiemay | May 13, 2012 |
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Here is the adventure that started John Muir on a lifetime of discovery. Taken from his earliest journals, this book records Muir's walk in 1867 from Indiana across Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to the Gulf Coast. In his distinct and wonderful style, Muir shows us the wilderness, as well as the towns and people, of the South immediately after the Civil War.

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