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Margaret Murie: a Wilderness Life
(Earth Keepers, nonfiction series)
written by Jennifer Fisher Bryant
illustrated by Antonio Castro
Henry Holt, 1993
ISBN 978-0516073989
A biography of a woman who moved to Alaska at the age of nine and fell in love with the mysterious landscape of the far North. She and her husband devoted their lives to studying wildlife in America and fought for the preservation of its wild places. Murie always believes that young people care deeply about the future of their planet and, for this reason, she is known as “the godmother” of the environmental movement.
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