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Captain Joseph Peabody: East India Merchant of Salem ...
Walter Muir WhitehillFrank Augustine Gardner, Gardner Memorial, A Biographical and Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Thomas Gardner, Planter . . . through his son Lieut. George Gardner (Salem, 1933), pp. 127-133. 56. (Salem, 1888), p. 14. 57.
American Furniture
More editionsBrock Jobe, "The Boston Furniture Industry, 1720- 1740," in Boston Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, edited bv Walter Muir Whitehill, Brock Jobe, and Jonathan Fairbanks (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1974), p. 28. As quoted ...
Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material ...
Neil KamilBrock Jobe, "The Boston Furniture Industry, 1720-1740," in Boston Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, ed. Walter Muir Whitehill, Jonathan Fairbanks, and Brock Jobe (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1974), 3-48 ; Benno M. Forman ...
Newport History: Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society
More editionsBrock Jobe, "The Boston Fumiture Industry 1720-1740," in Walter Muir Whitehill, ed., assisted by Brock Jobe, Boston Furniture of the Eighteenth Century (Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1974), pp. 33-34, 39-40, 42; and Benno ...
Planning the City Upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630
Lawrence W. KennedySurely here is the book that should follow upon Walter Whitehill''s classic Topographical History.'' - Sam Bass Warner, Jr., Jack Meyerhoff Professor of Environmental Studies, Brandeis University
The Wilderness World of John Muir
John MuirA 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
PreviewNew 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 ...
Jeffrey BilbroRobert 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John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir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 MuirThe 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
Marcie MuirThe remaining papers in the collection consist mainly of Muir's research, drafts and correspondence relating to this publication (5 boxes, 1 file).
Defeating Japan: The Joint Chiefs of Staff and Strategy in ...
C. BrowerHenry H. Arnold Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Hanson W. Baldwin Oral History, Naval Historical Center, Washington, DC. Thomas B. Buell–Ernest J. King–Walter M. Whitehill Collection, Naval Historical ...
John Muir: The Eight Wilderness Discovery Books
John MuirFeatures 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 ...
John MuirParts 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.
My First Summer in the Sierra
John MuirMuir'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
Henry ElliotProfiles John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club.
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
Donald WorsterLibrary 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
Donald WorsterYet 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
John MuirAn account of John Muir's 1881 voyage to Arctic waters off the coast of Alaska aboard the steamer Thomas Corwin
John Muir: Young Naturalist
Montrew DunhamJohn Muir was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.
John Muir and Stickeen: An Alaskan Adventure
Elizabeth Koehler-PentacoffDescribes an episode in the life of conservationist John Muir when he was stranded on a glacier with a brave dog, Stickeen.
Wilderness Essays
John MuirHere 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
Gretel EhrlichIn 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.
The Clay Family Quarterly
More editions... m James Edison m Thomas McQuire m George W. Wynn m Jennie Muir m Jenne Rebecca B. Campbell m Philip Mann m Amalia Klement m William H. Bisphain m William H. Preston m Olive Hazel Hockett m Walter Albert Davis m Van Ness ...
The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy
Stephen R. FoxFirst 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
John Kenneth MuirMuir 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.
Under the Influence: John Deakin, Photography and the Lure ...
Robin MuirWith dozens of reproductions of Deakin's most compelling images, letters, contact sheets and other ephemera, and a text by acclaimed photographic historian Robin Muir charting his troubled Soho existence, this book is an evocative record of ...
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