{"id":331,"date":"2014-04-22T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/22\/a-book-review-john-muir-magnificent-tramp-by-rod-miller\/"},"modified":"2014-04-22T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T23:56:00","slug":"a-book-review-john-muir-magnificent-tramp-by-rod-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/22\/a-book-review-john-muir-magnificent-tramp-by-rod-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book Review – John Muir: Magnificent Tramp by Rod Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"John<\/a>John Muir: Magnificent Tramp<\/a> by Rod Miller<\/a>
My rating: 3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n

It is apropos that I finished the audio-book experience on this work on Earth Day and that I had the opportunity to incorporate it into my Toastmasters Speech today on Water Conservation.<\/p>\n

John Muir is a named that I have heard ever since I became aware that the more beautiful places on earth (and there are many) must be protected from those among us who believe progress trumps nature. Even then, in adolescence, I knew that there once was a man who fought with zeal for the majestic and the small and his legacy adorned the marquees of local high-schools, some local peaks and the cool Sierra Club stickers that adorned my old Jeep.<\/p>\n

What I learned from this book is that Mr. Muir was an international wanderer and whose travels were beyond what I could have ever imagined. This was a man who pursued his love for the unseen path ahead and in his quest to wander gained fame and influence that is still revered and emulated by many.<\/p>\n

Our global community is at a crossroads and though many will not read many of Muir’s original writings, a biography like this provides insights into a time and a man when mankind became aware that our combined actions affect so much more than we could have imagined. <\/p>\n

Muir’s story is simple, harrowing, uncompromising and tinged with bitter-sweetness. After all, humankind fights the very earth that houses it and it takes reverence for our home-earth to fight our kind and maintain it. <\/p>\n

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John Muir: Magnificent Tramp by Rod MillerMy rating: 3 of 5 stars It is apropos that I finished the audio-book experience on this work on Earth Day and that I had the opportunity to incorporate it into my Toastmasters Speech today on Water Conservation. John Muir is a named that I have heard ever since … Continue reading “A Book Review – John Muir: Magnificent Tramp by Rod Miller”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[978,304,981,6,217,982,980,979],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}