![]() ![]() and Tokyo, the son of a newspaperman and an English teacher. It is a passionate appeal, a call to action to save one of the loveliest and most biodiverse regions of the world by understanding what we have to lose if we do nothing.ĭan Chapman is a longtime writer, reporter, and lover of the outdoors. A Road Running Southward paints a picture of a South under siege. ![]() Chapman seeks to discover how Southerners might balance surging population growth with protecting the natural beauty Muir found so special.Ĭhapman delves into the region’s natural history, moving between John Muir’s vivid descriptions of a lush botanical paradise and the myriad environmental problems facing the South today. But he laments that a treasured way of life for generations of Southerners is endangered as long-simmering struggles intensify over misused and dwindling resources. Channeling Muir, he uses humor, keen observation, and a deep love of place to celebrate the South’s natural riches. ![]() One hundred and fifty years later, on a similar whim, veteran Atlanta reporter Dan Chapman, distressed by sprawl-driven environmental ills in a region he loves, recreated Muir’s journey to see for himself how nature has fared since Muir’s time. “A Road Running Southward: Following John Muir's Journey through an Endangered Land” With author Dan Chapmanĭetails: In 1867, John Muir set out on foot to explore the botanical wonders of the South, keeping a detailed journal of his adventures as he traipsed from Kentucky southward to Florida. ![]()
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