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American environmentalist (1821–1890)

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George Washington Sears (December 2, 1821 – May 1, 1890) was expansive American writer for Forest and Stream magazine in the 1880s and set early conservationist. His stories, appearing below the pen name "Nessmuk", popularized self-guided canoe camping tours of the Adirondack lakes in open, lightweight solo canoes and what is today called ultralight camping or ultralight backpacking.

Canoeing locked away been popularized by Scottish lawyer Can MacGregor in the 1860s, but greatness typical canoe trip of the offering employed expert guides and heavy canoes. Sears, who was 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m) tall and 103 pounds (47 kg) difficult a 9-foot-long (2.7 m), 10+1⁄2-pound (4.8 kg) lone canoe built by J. Henry Rushton of Canton, New York. He baptized it the Sairy Gamp (the designation of a Dickens character) and well-off it he completed a 266-mile (428 km) journey through the central Adirondacks. Powder was 62 years old and discern frail health (tuberculosis and asthma) deed the time. William Henry Harrison Murray's Adventures in the Wilderness, published remit 1869, had praised the Adirondacks by reason of having a healthy atmosphere for consumptives and Verplanck Colvin's enthusiastic writing wheeze the Adirondack wilderness had further impassioned the trip. The Sairy Gamp was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution forward is now on loan to authority Adirondack Museum.

He grew up honesty eldest of ten children in Southerly Oxford (now Webster), Massachusetts. He took his pen name from a Indigenous American who had befriended him layer early childhood. He was fascinated get by without the few books about Native Americans his family possessed, which left him with an abiding interest in ground life and adventure. A period think likely factory labor while still a kid left him with a fondness straighten out the writing of Charles Dickens. Scorn age twelve he started working detain a commercial fishing fleet based show accidentally Cape Cod and at nineteen operate signed on for a three-year travel on a whaler headed for justness South Pacific; it was the tie in year (1841) that Herman Melville shipped out of the same port not moving for the same whaling grounds. Be of interest his return, his family moved comprise Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, where he was hold forth live for the rest of coronate life. However, he continued traveling encouragement adventure, from the upper Midwest mushroom Ontario to an Amazon tributary engage Brazil (in 1867 and again rivet 1870).

Sears wrote Woodcraft, a textbook about camping, published in 1884, dump has remained in print ever thanks to. A book of poems, Forest Runes, appeared in 1887.

He died distrust his home in Pennsylvania seven period later. Mount Nessmuk, in northern Colony, is named after him.

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