MCL - Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Describes the planning and execution of the first nonstop airplane flight from New York to Paris and discusses the aviator's life in the first third of the twentieth century.

All who have admired John Muir's ruggedly individualistic lifestyle, or who desire a greater appreciation of the history of environmental preservation in America, will be enthralled and enlightened by this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. Following Muir from his ancestral home in Scotland, through his early years in the harsh Wisconsin wilderness, to his historic pilgrimage to California, Linnie Marsh Wolfe creates a full and rounded portrait of...