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Cargando... The Camping Trip that Changed Americapor Barb Rosenstock
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt asked conservationist John Muir to take him camping in California to learn about Yosemite’s giant trees. The experience turned the president into a fierce protector of wilderness areas, and impacted the development of the national park system. Author Notes. This book explored how the birth of National Parks in our country. The pictures were, for me, the best part of the story. One illustration made you turn the book vertical in order to show how small Teddy and John Muir would have looked next to the Giant Sequoias. I knew who both Teddy R and John Muir were before picking this book; however, I was surprised to learn that Teddy R had read a book by John Muir about America's great disappearing forests. This book inspired Teddy to write to John Muir and set out on a camping trip with Muir in order to better understand the problem of disappearing forests. While camping, Muir would tell Teddy stories of his previous adventures, including one story of Muir fighting a grizzly bear. Teddy responded that he would like to see a grizzly and Muir told him none were left in Yosemite; they were all shot. Teddy was more determined to start a National Parks program to save these animals and plants and giant trees. It was his hope that his children and their children should be able to enjoy nature as much as he and Muir had. The founding of the National Parks movement had begun. Both Teddy R and John Muir are buried under tress near their home, which I thought really drove home the point about how much they loved nature. This is the story about how National Parks came to be. What I love most about this book is how the author makes two incredibly influential men so relatable to a younger generation. One was she does this is by giving the two men nicknames. Together, Theadore Roosevelt and John Muir go camping near Yosemite where they discuss the importance of setting aside land so that generations to come can enjoy it as much as they do. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Offers insight into the camping trip that President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir took to the redwoods of Yosemite in 1903, during which the two men had experiences and conversations that eventually contributed to the establishment of national parks in the United States. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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