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American Furniture

American Furniture

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Brock 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 ...
Newport History: Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society

Newport History: Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society

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Brock 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 ...
Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material ...

Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material ...

Neil Kamil

Brock 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  ...
Captain Joseph Peabody: East India Merchant of Salem ...

Captain Joseph Peabody: East India Merchant of Salem ...

Walter Muir Whitehill

Frank 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.
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  ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Defeating Japan: The Joint Chiefs of Staff and Strategy in ...

Defeating Japan: The Joint Chiefs of Staff and Strategy in ...

C. Brower

Henry 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 ...
Planning the City Upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630

Planning the City Upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630

Lawrence W. Kennedy

Surely 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
John Muir: Protecting and Preserving the Environment

John Muir: Protecting and Preserving the Environment

Henry Elliot

Profiles John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club.
Department of Health: the National Programme for IT in the ...

Department of Health: the National Programme for IT in the ...

Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts

Q87 Mr Khan: It starts by saying that people could be put at clinical risk. What do you say to that? Sir Ian Carruthers: We should like Professor Sir Muir Gray to answer that. Sir Muir Gray: Like all technology, information technology has a clinical ...
Sod Sitting, Get Moving!: Getting Active in Your 60s, 70s ...

Sod Sitting, Get Moving!: Getting Active in Your 60s, 70s ...

Muir Gray

This handy book shows you how.With easy exercise ideas created by Green Goddess and health and fitness expert Diana Moran, with text from Professor Sir Muir Gray, author of the bestselling Sod Seventy!, this is the perfect present for ...
Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

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Sir Muir Gray. Thalia Knight. Andrew Smith. Christopher Russell Topic adviser presentation (from left to right): Rowan Pritchard Jones, Peter Gosling. Susan F Andrew Logan. Sir Muir Gray. Ian Hunt. Navroop Johal. Nick Matharu NEW START: ...
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, ...
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 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, ...
Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

Suzanne Roberts

Part memoir, part nature writing, part travelogue, Almost Somewhere is Roberts’s account of that hike. John Muir had written of the Sierra Nevada as a “vast range of light,” and this was exactly what Roberts was looking for.
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 ...
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.
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: 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.
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
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.
John Muir and his legacy: the American conservation movement

John Muir and his legacy: the American conservation movement

Stephen R. Fox

A detailed biography of the eccentric naturalist, John Muir, traces his influence on the American national park system and on the diverse and tumultuous history of the American conservation movement
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.

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