A memoir of childhood and a celebration of the natural world, from one of the founding fathers of modern conservation
This is the first complete English translation of a lively travelogue written by Andronikos aka Nikandros Noukios, a Greek from Corfu, who accompanied a diplomatic mission from Venice to England in the middle of the sixteenth century.
John Muir first visited Alaska in 1879, and he later made several trips there to test his beliefs on glacial activity. The largest tide-water glacier honours his memory properly. His... Læs mere