Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf

4 Bedømmelse

4.8

Serie

1 af 1023

Varighed
4T 4M
Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Klassikere

In early March 1867, Muir was injured while working at a wagon wheels factory: a tool he was using slipped and struck him in the eye. This accident changed the course of his life. He was confined to a darkened room for six weeks, worried he’d lost his sight forever. When he did recover, the world looked completely different and life had taken on a new meaning for him. Muir later said, "This affliction has driven me to the sweet fields. God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons." From that point on, he determined to "be true to myself" and follow his dream of exploring and studying plants.

A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf recounts Muir's walk of approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Indiana to Florida. He did not follow a specific route, only going by the "wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find." This journal is the earliest of Muir's writings and autobiographically bridges the period between "The Story of my Boyhood and Youth" and "My First Summer in the Sierra."

John Muir (1838-1914) was a Scottish-American author and naturalist, who is traditionally considered to be the "Father of the National Parks". Born in Dunbar (East Lothian), he spent his childhood exploring the area, and that is where his love of nature first bloomed. In 1849, his family emigrated to Portage, Wisconsin for religious reasons. At 22, he joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison, from which he never graduated, as he preferred to take a multitude of different classes in the variety of subjects he was interested him, such as chemistry, botany and geology. In 1866, whilst working at an Indianapolis wagon wheel factory, he got into a serious accident and almost lost his sight. When he recovered, he decided to follow his dreams and explore nature. In September 1867, he walked from Kentucky to Florida, later describing the trip in his "A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf." In 1868, he boarded a ship to Cuba, then later on sailed to New York City, from whence he travelled to California. From there, he decided to visit Yosemite, which he had long read about. He was one of the first to infer that the landscape there must have been formed by glaciers, a widely disputed theory at the time. Muir wrote countless essays, books and letters recounting his adventures out in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada, which have been read by millions. He played a vital role in the preservation of natural areas, and the creations of Yosemite and Sequoia National Park, amongst many others.

© 2020 SAGA Egmont (Lydbog): 9788726472837

Udgivelsesdato

Lydbog: 14. september 2020

Andre kan også lide...

  1. An Outcast of the Islands Joseph Conrad
  2. Cabbages and Kings O. Henry
  3. Misery Anton Chekhov
  4. The Diary of a Madman, and Other Russian Sketches Anton Chekhov
  5. Fairy Tales for Adults Volume 2 Anton Chekhov
  6. Bad Weather Anton Chekhov
  7. The Best of America: Seven Classic Short Stories Edgar Allan Poe
  8. The Best Russian Short Stories Various Authors
  9. The American Experience: A Collection of Great American Stories Edgar Allan Poe
  10. 300 Quotes from English Writers Jane Austen
  11. The Metamorphosis: Classic Tales Edition Franz Kafka
  12. Ward No. 6 Anton Chekhov
  13. 700 Quotations from the Great Writers of the 19th Century Victor Hugo
  14. The First Men in the Moon H.G. Wells
  15. The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain Charles Dickens
  16. A Dog's Tale Mark Twain
  17. The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
  18. 1100 Quotations from the Great French Writers of the 19th Century Victor Hugo
  19. Masterpieces of Adventure: Stories of Desert Places Selma Lagerlöf
  20. Fifteen Great Novellas Arthur Conan Doyle
  21. 500 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 18th Century Adam Smith
  22. Two Tales From Herman Melville Herman Melville
  23. A Rare Recording of Mahatma Gandhi - Volume 2 Mahatma Gandhi
  24. Twenty Strange Stories O. Henry
  25. Forcing Justice: Violence and Nonviolence in Selected Texts by Thoreau and Gandhi Henry David Thoreau
  26. 600 Quotations from the Great Writers of the 17th Century Miguel de Cervantes
  27. Shakespeare's Greatest Hits William Shakespeare
  28. Short Stories Leo Tolstoy
  29. Thus Spake Zarathustra FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
  30. Tagore Poems Rabindranath Tagore
  31. My Life - The Story of a Provincial Anton Chekhov
  32. The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad
  33. A Work of Art Anton Chekhov

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Start tilbuddet