A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (Broché)

At the age of 29, naturalist John Muir set out alo for a long hike through the rural Americ in the immediate aftermath of the Civil W This volume chronicles his path from Indiana acro Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, an Florida to the Gulf of Mexico. Muir chose the "wild leafiest, and least trodden way I could find," sketchi plants along the way and recording his delighte encounters with Spanish moss, palmettos, magnol and other botanical wonders.
Although he preferre the wilderness to settlements, Muir occasional encountered former Confederate soldiers, freed slay pnd other residents of the region during the 1860s. 3Fhis volume bridges the gap between The Story My Boyhood and Youth and My First Summer in the Sierra. Muir's editor and biographer, Willia Frederic Badè, assembled it by drawing upon th decades-old journals kept by the fledgling conse tionist and writer as he traversed the many mil Badè's footnotes appear throughout the boo offering context for Muir's enthusiastic observation which pulse with the immediacy and freshness of first impressions.
Atmospheric black-and-white photograp and sketches complement the text.