From the Eagle’s Wing (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Hildegarde Hoyt Swift
- First Published: 1962
- Time of Work: 1838–1914
- Setting: Dunbar, Scotland; Wisconsin; California; and Alaska
- Principal Characters: John Muir, Daniel Muir, David Muir, Mrs. Ezra Carr, Louie Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert Underwood Johnson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Nature, Nineteenth century, Ecology, Environment or environmental health, Biography, Exploration or explorers, Wildlife, Naturalists, Natural resources
- Locales: California, Wisconsin, Alaska, Scotland
Form and Content
Hildegarde Hoyt Swift’s From the Eagle’s Wing: A Biography of John Muir is a chronological narrative account, in thirteen chapters, of the life of this famous conservationist. His life is traced from his formative years in Scotland to his death in California seventy-five years later. The book contains thirteen full-page illustrations and detailed acknowledgments to many publishers, libraries, and those in the private sector who provided information to Swift.
Although the book reads very much like children’s fiction, with a considerable...
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