A review by tashrow
The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks by Mordicai Gerstein, Barb Rosenstock

5.0

Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir had little in common growing up except for one thing: they both loved the outdoors and the wilderness. So in 1903, when President Roosevelt read a book by John Muir that pleaded for people to save the trees, he couldn’t stop thinking about losing all of the trees in the mountain forests. Roosevelt set out to meet with Muir in Yosemite. After a few pictures, the two men rode off together with no entourage or photographers along. Roosevelt got to see the giant sequoias, listen to Muir’s stories, see valleys carved by glaciers, and awaken under inches of snow. Together the two men dreamed a new dream for the United States and its wild areas, one where they were protected for generations to come.

Read the rest of my review on my blog, Waking Brain Cells.