Lomig
What pushed John Muir to become the pioneering environmentalist and founder of the Sierra Club?
1867: A sawmill is running at full speed with a terrible noise when suddenly, workers run to rescue a man on the ground. He has seriously injured his eyes. John Muir is twenty-nine years old and has to be confined in a dark room: it is likely that he may remain blind. But miraculously, after months of an almost mystical convalescence, he regains his sight.
This episode convinces him he's going to leave everything behind and embrace his lifelong dream: head south to meet the wilderness. Armed with only his courage, his youth, a magnifying glass and a botanical book, he treks hundreds of miles on foot from Indiana to Florida. Imagine an almost pristine wilderness, where only a few dangerous ex-soldiers from the South and former slaves thrown out of the old plantations roam…
This biography also covers his other life-changing pioneering trek along the Sierra Nevada Trail which now bears his name. Here, in breathtaking vistas, is the inspiration he got to found the Sierra Club, create the first national parks, and become one of America’s first and foremost environmentalist champions.
Exquisitely rendered in a sepia tone.
* Winner of Atomium Cognito Prize for Historical Comics (Best Historical Comic Strip)
REVIEWS:
"Those inclined to the pastoral will discover magnificence."
- Frank Plowright, The Slings & Arrows
"The genius of John Muir is that reading it is like accompanying Muir on his travels: you discover what he discovers and experience what he experiences."
- Sarah Boslaugh, theartsstl
"This beautiful and lavish commemoration is filled with appreciation and wonder for Muir’s life, lifestyle and achievements, and it’s truly terrifying to consider that all the great works of Muir and his many converts could be so easily undone by a bunch of greedy jerks with mean hearts, stupid policies, orange bottle tans and big black Sharpies…"
- Win WIacek, Now Read This!
"The question posed at the beginning — of what drove Muir to becoming the environmentalist figurehead he did — is answered not merely through facts or figures, but through this patient depiction of landscapes that shaped every aspect of his character."
- Lindsay Pereira, Broken Frontier
"A captivating book about a man and the nature he travels through."
- Patti Martinson, Sequential Tart
"With its stunning artwork and poignant storytelling, it is both an educational resource and a source of inspiration. "
- Nurse Shannan's Product Reviews
"The story is one of the soul of Muir, serene and calm, focusing on what he encounters and his sometimes-visceral reactions."
- Richard Winters, School Library Journal
8 ½ x 11, 176pp., sepia HC, $24.99
ISBN 9781681123523
Buy the ebook: $16.99
ISBN 9781681123530