A very special original book with quotes from Muirs work about animal encounters and friendships, beautifully illustrated with art especially commisioned for this edition
98 ; Wolfe , John of the Mountains , pp . 82 , 93. See also Lisa Mighetto , “ Science , Sentiment , and Anxiety : American Nature Writing at the Turn of the Century , ” Pacific Historical Review 54 ( February 1985 ) : 33-50 , and Cohen ...
Steep Trails(1919), This book was derived from letters, articles and local publications written by John Muir, arranged in roughly chronological sequence.
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 .
The Sierra Club founder offers an extensive overview of America's national parks at the turn of the 20th century, including appraisals of Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant. Includes vintage photos.
The best of John Muir -- 332 quotations, the distillation of his thought, the essence of his beliefs. Muir was the foremost conservationist of his time -- nature writer, social critic, realist, a romantic, a visionary.
In the classic nature work, The Yosemite, the great American naturalist, John Muir, describes the Yosemite valley's geography and the myriad types of trees, flowers, birds, and other animals that...
First published as a series of essays in€The Atlantic Monthly, €John Muir's€Our National Parks€contains Muir's renderings of some of the most picturesque national parks in America. Throughout his life, Muir...
Muir also made four trips to Alaska and he documented these experiences in books Travels in Alaska and The Cruise of the Corwin.
"Famed naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) came to Wisconsin as a boy and studied at the University of Wisconsin. He first came to California in 1868 and devoted six years to...
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 ...