When John Muir traveled to California in 1868, he found the pristine mountain ranges that would inspire his life's work. The Mountains of California is the culmination of the ten years Muir spent in the Sierra Nevadas, studying every crag, crook, and valley with great care and contemplation. Bill McKibben writes in his Introduction that Muir "invents, by sheer force of his love, an entirely new vocabulary and grammar of the wild . . . a language of ecstasy and exuberance." The Mountains of California is as vibrant and vital today as when it was written over a century ago....
When John Muir traveled to California in 1868, he found the pristine mountain ranges that would inspire his life's work. The Mountains of California i...
From the photographer who brought Thoreau's "Walden" and "Cape Cod" to life comes a new work combining classic literature with brand-new photography. This time, Scot Miller takes on the seminal work of John Muir, "My First Summer in the Sierra." The book details Muir's first extended trip to the Sierra Nevada in what is now Yosemite National Park, a landscape that entranced him immediately and had a profound effect on his life. The towering waterfalls, natural rock formations, and abundant plant and animal life helped Muir develop his views of the natural world, views that would eventually...
From the photographer who brought Thoreau's "Walden" and "Cape Cod" to life comes a new work combining classic literature with brand-new photograph...
Muir's enchantment with Alaska began only twelve years after American purchased it from Russia in 1867. Here, after thirty years and many return visits, he records his first adventures in the land of glaciers and northern lights.
Muir's enchantment with Alaska began only twelve years after American purchased it from Russia in 1867. Here, after thirty years and many return visit...
In the spring of 1881, the steamship Thomas Corwin began a daring voyage of 15,000 nautical miles into treacherous Arctic seas to search for captain G. W. De Long and his ship Jeannette, which had left San Francisco two years earlier to drift across the North Pole while trapped in ice. There had been no word from the Jeannette for months. The ship was never found, but John Muir's account of this expedition--which includes vivid descriptions of ice-choked seas, Arctic vegetation, awe-inspiring glaciers, and the native people--captures the magic and mystery of the farthest reaches of the...
In the spring of 1881, the steamship Thomas Corwin began a daring voyage of 15,000 nautical miles into treacherous Arctic seas to search for captain G...
John Muir's extraordinary vision of America comes to life in these fascinating selections from his personal journals.
As a conservationist, John Muir traveled through most of the American wilderness alone and on foot, without a gun or a sleeping bag. In 1903, while on a three-day camping trip with President Theodore Roosevelt, he convinced the president of the importance of a national conservation program, and he is widely recognized for saving the Grand Canyon and Arizona's Petrified Forest. Muir's writing, based on journals he kept throughout his life, gives our...
John Muir's extraordinary vision of America comes to life in these fascinating selections from his personal journals.
In the spring of 1869, John Muir was looking for means of support to fund his explorations of California's Central Valley region. A ranch owner offered him a job herding sheep in the Sierra Nevada. As he explored the region, he jotted down his keen observations of the scenic countryside, and he eventually became a guide for some of Yosemite's most famous visitors, including Ralph Waldo Emerson. Muir documented these experiences in The Yosemite, first published in 1912. It is at once a vivid, accurate description of the land and a passionate homage to nature. This Modern Library...
In the spring of 1869, John Muir was looking for means of support to fund his explorations of California's Central Valley region. A ranch owner offere...
This is a collection of articles written by the pioneering naturalist for the San Francisco Evening Bulletin in 1874 and 1875. . . . In the course of his wanderings we hear Muir grow from a student of the wilderness to its professor and protector.--Sierra Magazine
This is a collection of articles written by the pioneering naturalist for the San Francisco Evening Bulletin in 1874 and 1875. . . . In the course of ...
