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Riverdale: East of the Don

Riverdale: East of the Don

Elizabeth Gillan Muir

Eleanor Darke,A MillShould be BuildThereon (Toronto: Natural Heritage, 1995), 20. The Butler's Rangers wasa loyalistcorpsunderJohn Butler,disbanded in 1784; “Roots web,” Family Tree Maker, www.ancestry.com. The numbers in Coon's ...
Changing Roles of Women Within the Christian Church in Canada

Changing Roles of Women Within the Christian Church in Canada

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8 Beyond the Bounds of Acceptable Behaviour: Methodist Women Preachers in the Early Nineteenth Century ELIZABETH GILLAN MUIR Methodist women were supported by a tradition that had long allowed them leadership roles including ...
Canadian Women in the Sky: 100 Years of Flight

Canadian Women in the Sky: 100 Years of Flight

Elizabeth Gillan Muir

From the time the first woman climbed on board a flying machine as a passenger to the moment a Canadian woman astronaut visited the International Space Station, this is an account of how the sky-blue glass ceiling eventually cracked, ...
John Muir Trail Data Book

John Muir Trail Data Book

Elizabeth Wenk

A derivative of the comprehensive John Muir Trail by Sierra expert Elizabeth Wenk, this data book is perfect for the weight-conscious hiker.
John Muir and Stickeen: An Alaskan Adventure

John Muir and Stickeen: An Alaskan Adventure

Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff

Describes an episode in the life of conservationist John Muir when he was stranded on a glacier with a brave dog, Stickeen.
Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers

Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers

Crawford Gillan

FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED BY CRAWFORD GILLAN RECOMMENDED BY THE SOCIETY OF EDITORS
John Muir Trail: South to North edition: The Essential Guide ...

John Muir Trail: South to North edition: The Essential Guide ...

Elizabeth Wenk

John Muir Trail: The essential guide to hiking America's most famous trail Special digitalonly edition for northbound hikers Copyright © 2014 by Wilderness Press Cover photos copyright © 2014 by Elizabeth Wenk Unless otherwise noted, ...
Wildflowers of the High Sierra and John Muir Trail

Wildflowers of the High Sierra and John Muir Trail

Elizabeth Wenk

... Season Mid-June–early August Locations Mt. Dana, Muir Pass, Kearsarge Pass, Shepherd Pass, Mt. Whitney Leaves and Stems: Reaching no more than 10 cm in height, this species has a dense rosette of dark to bluish-green, elongate, ...
The Wilderness World of John Muir

The Wilderness World of John Muir

John Muir

A collection of Muir's finest nature and environmental writings includes excerpts from all his major works, including Travels in Alaska and My First Summer in the Sierra. Reprint.
John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures

John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures

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New information on the life of the famed environmentalist presented in 2001 at the John Muir Institute, hosted by the John Muir Center.
Loving God's Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological ...

Loving God's Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological ...

Jeffrey Bilbro

Robert Fuller portrays Muir as a pantheist (51), and Adam Sowards follows Weiss and Taylor in reading Muir's Christianity as merely a vocabular inheritance. 5. Elsewhere, Stoll also places Muir in the Reformed Protestant tradition because of  ...
John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

John Muir

The sixty extant journals and numerous notes in this volume were written from 1867 to 1911. They start seven years after the time covered in The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Muir's uncompleted autobiography.
Papers of Marcie Muir Relating to Katie Langloh Parker

Papers of Marcie Muir Relating to Katie Langloh Parker

Marcie Muir

The remaining papers in the collection consist mainly of Muir's research, drafts and correspondence relating to this publication (5 boxes, 1 file).
John Muir: The Eight Wilderness Discovery Books

John Muir: The Eight Wilderness Discovery Books

John Muir

Features the eight influential books in which John Muir reflects on the beauty of America's wilderness and fights for their protection.
Index to Mr. [John] Muir's Sanskrit Texts: Parts First and ...

Index to Mr. [John] Muir's Sanskrit Texts: Parts First and ...

John Muir

Parts First and Second John Muir. Dadat, ii. 98 Dadatah, ii. 98 Dadathuh, ii. 131 Dadatï, ii. 30 Dadäti, ii. 12,30, 98 Dadato, ii. ... 127 Danam, declens., ii, 250 Danavas, i. 38, 166 f, 192 ; ii. 431 Danavratas, i. 193 Dandaka forest, ii. 425 Dandan, ii.
Wildflowers of the High Sierra and John Muir Trail

Wildflowers of the High Sierra and John Muir Trail

Elizabeth Wenk

This new book by Sierra expert Elizabeth Wenk includes photos and descriptions of approximately 300 species of wildflowers and flowering shrubs in the High Sierra.
My First Summer in the Sierra

My First Summer in the Sierra

John Muir

Muir's engaging journal describes majestic vistas, flora and fauna, as well as the region's other breathtaking natural wonders. 21 black-and-white illustrations.
John Muir: Protecting and Preserving the Environment

John Muir: Protecting and Preserving the Environment

Henry Elliot

Profiles John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club.
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir

A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir

Donald Worster

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Worster, Donald, 1941– A passion for nature ; the life of John Muir / Donald Worster. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-19-516682-8 1. Muir, John, 1838–1914. 2.
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir

A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir

Donald Worster

Yet the book also describes a Muir who was a successful fruit-grower, a talented scientist and world-traveler, a doting father and husband, a self-made man of wealth and political influence.
The Cruise of the Corwin

The Cruise of the Corwin

John Muir

An account of John Muir's 1881 voyage to Arctic waters off the coast of Alaska aboard the steamer Thomas Corwin
John Muir: Young Naturalist

John Muir: Young Naturalist

Montrew Dunham

John Muir was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.
Wilderness Essays

Wilderness Essays

John Muir

Here collected are some of Muir's finest wilderness essays, ranging in subject matter from Alaska to Yellowstone, from Oregon to the High Sierra.This book is part of a series that celebrates the tradition of literary naturalists--writers ...
John Muir: nature's visionary

John Muir: nature's visionary

Gretel Ehrlich

In this definitive photobiography, Ehrlich brings her award-winning grace & insight to the life of one of our nation's most prized environmental heroes--John Muir, a founder of the Sierra Club.
Occupy! A global movement

Occupy! A global movement

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Jenny Pickerill, John Krinsky, Graeme Hayes, Kevin Gillan, Brian Doherty. Occupy! A Global Movement Edited by The Sociol Movement Studies Editoric Collective: Jenny Pickerill, John Krinsky, Graeme Hayes, Kevin Gillan and Brian Doherty ...
The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy

The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy

Stephen R. Fox

First published in 1981 by Little, Brown, this book was warmly received as both a biography of Muir and a history of the American conservation movement. It is now available in this new Wisconsin paperback edition.
Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company

Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company

John Kenneth Muir

Muir also details the events that lead to Rob Reiner's influential and legendary This Is Spinal Tap , which Rolling Stone called the best rock and roll movie of all time, and in which Guest played the part of guitarist Nigel Tufnel.

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