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"The title of this posthumously published 1916 volume says it all. Editor William Frederic Bade uses Muir's journals to recount his 1867 walking tour from Indiana to the Gulf Coast just two years after the end of the Civil War. An extraordinary adventure for a twenty-nine-year old budding naturalist, it marked the beginning of Muir's lifelong commitment to wilderness preservation."
"In 1867, John Muir, age twenty-eight, was blinded in an industrial accident. He lay in bed for two weeks wondering if he would ever see again. When his sight miraculously returned, Muir resolved to devote all his time to the great passion of his life -- studying plants. He quit his job in an Indiana manufacturing plant, said good-bye to his family, and set out alone to walk to the Gulf of Mexico, sketching tropical plants along the way. He kept a journal of this thousand-mile walk and near the end of his life, now famous as a conservation warrior and literary celebrity, sent a typescript of it to his publisher. The result is a wonderful portrait of a young man in search of himself and a particularly vivid portrait of the post-war American South. Here is the young Muir talking with freed slaves and former Confederate soldiers, pondering the uses of electricity, exploring Mammoth Cave, sleeping in a Savannah cemetery, delirious with malarial fever in the home of strangers at Cedar Key, traveling to Havana, Cuba, and sailing to San Francisco Bay. Once in California, Muir promptly set out for Yosemite Valley -- 200 miles away. There Muir found his destiny -- and a mountain range to test his apparently inexhaustible capacity for walking. A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf bridges two Muir classics: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth and My First Summer in the Sierra."

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"A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf [from Indiana to Florida]"@en
"A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf [from Indiana to Florida] ... Edited by W.F. Badè. With illustrations"@en
"Mo xi ge wan qian li tu bu xing"
"墨西哥灣千哩徒步行"
"A thousand-mile walk to the gulf"
"Moxige wan qian li tu bu xing = A thousand-mile walk to the gulf"
"A thousand mile walk to the Gulf"@en
"A Thousand-mile walk to the Gulf"@en
"Quinze cents kilomètres à pied à travers l'Amérique profonde, 1867-1869"
"A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf. Edited by William Frederic Bade"@en
"Quinze cents kilomètres à pied à travers l'Amérique profonde : 1867-1869"
"Moxige wan qian li tu bu xing"
"Thousand-mile walk to the gulf"@en
"Thousand-mile walk to the gulf"
"A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf"@en
"A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf"
"墨西哥湾千里徒步行 = A thousand-mile walk to the gulf"
"Quinze cents kilomètres à pied à travers l'Amérique"

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