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  • The Oriental Studies (1878)
    John Muir
    The Oriental Studies is a book written by John Muir in 1878. It is a comprehensive and detailed work on the history, culture, and religion of the Orient. The book covers a wide range of topics, including the ancient civilizations of India, Persia, and China, the religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, and the literature and art of these cultures. Muir’s writing is highly in...
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    30,08 €

  • My First Summer In The Sierra
    John Muir
    This antiquarian volume contains John Muir’s 1911 travel book, 'My First Summer in the Sierra'. After the American Civil War, John Muir assembled a group of shepherds to drive a large flock of sheep to Yosemite National Park. In 1911 he published this account of the experience, which would encourage many people to visit the Yosemite region and become a seminal piece of environm...
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    17,41 €

  • Our National Parks
    John Muir
    First published in 1901, “Our National Parks” is a fantastic guide to the wild mountain forest reservations and national parks of the United States, exploring their beauty and usefulness in an attempt to encourage contemporary readers to go out and enjoy the natural wonders of North America. John Muir (1838–1914) was an influential Scottish-American  naturalist, environmental p...
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    25,23 €

  • Letters to a Friend - Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr 1866-1879
    John Muir
    This vintage book contains a collection of letters written by John Muir to Ezra S. Carr. Whilst he was at university, Muir was a frequent caller at Carr’s house. She was a botanist and lover of nature whom Muir would come to consider his spiritual mother - he felt that Carr thoroughly understood and sympathised with him. His letters, mostly written from the Yosemite Valley, giv...
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    22,27 €

  • Carlyle On Burns (1898)
    John Muir
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    15,00 €

  • The Yosemite
    John Muir
    ...John Muir was the first modern preservationist and founder of the Sierra Club. He helped save the Yosemite Valley and wilderness areas in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Muir wrote essays and books whose relevance makes them still popular. Muir felt that the livestock in the Yosemite area was destroying the land and helped petition congress to make the area a national park. ...
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    24,88 €

  • Travels in Alaska
    Muir John
    ...Forty years ago John Muir wrote to a friend; 'I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. . . . Civilization and fever, and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me, have not dimmed my glacial eyes, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.' How gloriously he fulfilled the promise of his early manhood! Fame, all unbidden, wore a path to his...
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    28,85 €

  • Steep Trails
    John Muir
    Every important movement has a guiding force as a catalyst and John Muir was that catalyst for the environmental movement in the United States. John Muir (1838 - 1914) was a preservationist and environmentalist. He was the founder of the Sierra Club, which is one of the most influential organizations in the U S. His letters, essays and books were often written about nature a...
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    25,44 €

  • The Man Shakespeare And Other Essays (1902)
    Catharine Merrill / John Muir / Melville B. Anderson / Melville BAnderson
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    27,91 €

  • A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf (1916)
    John Muir
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    31,14 €

  • Our National Parks (1901)
    John Muir
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    26,48 €

  • Travels In Alaska (1916)
    John Muir
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    26,73 €

  • My First Summer In The Sierra (1917)
    John Muir
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,35 €

  • Letters To A Friend
    John Muir
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    27,98 €

  • The Cruise Of The Corwin
    John Muir
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    37,66 €

  • Our National Parks
    John Muir
    A key founder of the modern conservation movement, John Muir was a champion of the preservation of the unspoiled wilderness and of the careful guardianship of the environment. This 1901 work, a collection of essays first published in the Atlantic Monthly, is Muir’s valentine to the national parks of the American West. He introduces us to:. the glacier meadows and wild geysers o...
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    34,95 €

  • Stickeen - The Story of a Dog (1909)
    John Muir
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    20,80 €

  • Stickeen - The Story of a Dog (1909)
    John Muir
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    18,49 €

  • Mercy in Her Eyes
    John Kenneth Muir
    MERCY IN HER EYES: THE FILMS OF MIRA NAIR ...
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    16,03 €

  • Steep Trails
    John Muir
    When the north wind blows, bathing in Salt Lake is a glorious baptism, for then it is all wildly awake with waves, blooming like a prairie in snowy crystal foam. Plunging confidently into the midst of the grand uproar you are hugged and welcomed, and swim without effort, rocking and heaving up and down, in delightful rhythm, while the winds sing in chorus and the cool, fragrant...
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    25,83 €

  • Letters to a Friend
    John Muir
    I wish that you could have seen the edge of the snow-cloud which hovered, oh, so soothingly, down to the grand Pilot Peak brows, discharging its heaven-begotten snows with such unmistakable gentleness and moving perhaps with conscious love from pine to pine as if bestowing separate and independent blessings upon each. In a few hours we climbed under and into this glorious storm...
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    21,43 €

  • Studies of the Sierra
    John Muir
    Though the gigantic glaciers of the Sierra are dead, their history is indelibly recorded in characters of rock, mountain, cañon, and forest; and, although other hieroglyphics are being incessantly engraved over these, 'line upon line,' the glacial characters are so enormously emphasized that they rise free and unconfused in sublime relief, through every after inscription, wheth...
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    23,09 €

  • An Analytical Guide to Television’s Battlestar Galactica
    John Kenneth Muir
    When the space drama Battlestar Galactica debuted on ABC in 1978, it was expected to be the most popular new program of the year. Instead, it was attacked as a Star Wars rip-off and canceled after a mere 17 stories. The author acknowledges the show was full of dramatic cliches and scientific inaccuracies, but despite these shortcomings, Battlestar Galactica was a dramatically r...
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    28,24 €

  • The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
    John Muir
    The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is an autobiographical book written by John Muir, a Scottish-American naturalist, conservationist, and writer. The book recounts Muir’s early life in Dunbar, Scotland, and his childhood experiences in Wisconsin, United States. Muir describes his love for nature and his fascination with the natural world from a young age, which eventually led to...
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    35,57 €

  • Exploring Space
    John K Muir
    Starring internationally renowned actors Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse and Catherine Schell, the British-made Space: 1999 was the only truly original space adventure of the mid-1970s. Sandwiched between the demise of the original Star Trek and the opening of the Stars Wars series on the big screen, Space: 1999 featured a richly-visualized world where space was terrif...
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    28,34 €

  • Films of John Carpenter (Revised)
    John K Muir
    The films of John Carpenter cover a tremendous range and yet all bear his clear personal stamp. From the horrifying (Halloween) to the touching (Starman) to the controversial (The Thing) to the comic (Big Trouble in little China), his films reflect a unique approach to filmmaking and singular views of humanity and American culture. This analysis of Carpenter’s films includes a ...
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    44,12 €

  • Stickeen
    John Muir
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    12,60 €

  • Best in Show
    John Kenneth Muir
    BEST IN SHOW: THE FILMS OF CHRISTOPHER GUEST AND COMPANY ...
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    17,16 €

  • Travels In Alaska
    John Muir
    Travels in Alaska is a non-fiction book written by John Muir, a renowned naturalist, and conservationist. The book is a detailed account of Muir’s travels in Alaska, which he undertook in 1879. The book is divided into ten chapters, each of which describes Muir’s experiences in different parts of Alaska.In the book, Muir writes about the stunning natural beauty of Alaska, its g...
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    32,01 €

  • The Mountains Of California
    John Muir
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    33,38 €


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