A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf extravagantly carved breakfronts

extravagantly carved breakfronts

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and other floral motifs as well as butterflies

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A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf extravagantly carved breakfrontsAt the age of 29, naturalist John Muir set out alone for a long hike through the rural American South in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. This volume chronicles his path from Indiana across Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to the Gulf of Mexico. Muir chose the "wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find," sketching plants along the way and recording his delighted encounters with Spanish moss, palmettos,