A biography of the man known as "father of America's national parks" and an influential conservationist, told in the first person, using Muir's own words.
This volume contributes to a strain of spirituality that finds an echo in today's environmental movements.
A collection of Muir's definitive writings is brought together in a volume that includes The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, and various other essays on his attempts to preserve the ...
To them all I wish to express my heartfelt thanks , especially to William E. Colby , Inez M. Haring , Josephine L. Harper , Thomas H. Kearney , Jr. , Don Greame Kelley , Charlotte E. Mauk and Marion Randall Parsons .
Working closely with Muir's family and with his papers, Wolfe was able to create a full portrait of her subject, not only as America's firebrand conservationist and founder of the national park system, but also as husband, father, and ...
The sixty extant journals and numerous notes in this volume were written from 1867 to 1911. They start seven years after the time covered in The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Muir's uncompleted autobiography.
Depicts the life of John Muir--writer, scholar, inventor, shepherd, farmer, explorer, and naturalist--who devoted his life to the land, influenced the first national park in America--Yosemite--and founded the Sierra Club in 1892.
Emigrating from Scotland as an eleven-year-old in 1849, John Muir spent a harsh boyhood working on his family's farm in Wisconsin. After a factory accident in his early twenties left...
John Muir was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.
Throughtout his life, JOHN MUIR was a passionate believer that everyone needs a place to play, and some places were just too special to be destoyed for money.
"Like Muir himself, Essential Muir packs an astounding range of experience into a lithe frame: ecstatic yet scientific descriptions of Yosemite; the heartrending tale of that "wee, hairy, sleekit beastie,"...