The Conservation Essentials Collection: Walden, Walking, The Yosemite, Travels in Alaska, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Land of Little Rain (Unabridged)
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- 345,00 kr
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- 345,00 kr
Publisher Description
The Conservation Essentials Collection brings together six classics of American nature writing, wilderness reflection, and early conservation thought.
Book 1: Walden by Henry David Thoreau records the author's experiment in simple living at Walden Pond, combining observation of nature with reflections on economy, solitude, society, and spiritual independence.
Book 2: Walking presents Thoreau's famous defense of wildness, sauntering, and the moral importance of the natural world.
Book 3: The Yosemite by John Muir celebrates the grandeur of Yosemite Valley, its waterfalls, forests, mountains, and living systems.
Book 4: Travels in Alaska follows Muir through glaciers, storms, forests, and encounters with the vast northern landscape.
Book 5: My First Summer in the Sierra recounts Muir's formative journey through the Sierra Nevada, filled with close observation, reverence, and delight.
Book 6: The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin evokes the deserts of the American Southwest with lyrical attention to climate, plants, animals, and human adaptation.
Together these works trace a line from personal communion with nature to the broader conservation ethic that helped shape modern environmental thought.
