• N.A
  • History
  • 2013-10-21

The Wild Muir

Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

Author: N.A

Publisher: Yosemite Conservancy

ISBN: 1930238444

Category: History

Page: 224

View: 1235

Here is an entertaining collection of John Muir’s most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosemite Valley to his night spent weathering a windstorm at the top of a tree to death-defying falls on Alaskan glaciers, the renowned outdoorsman’s exploits are related in passages that are by turns exhilarating, unnerving, dizzying, and outrageous.
  • N.A
  • History
  • 2013-03-12

The Wild Muir

Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

Author: N.A

Publisher: Yosemite Conservancy

ISBN: 1930238371

Category: History

Page: 224

View: 5198

Here is an entertaining collection of John Muir’s most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosemite Valley to his night spent weathering a windstorm at the top of a tree to death-defying falls on Alaskan glaciers, the renowned outdoorsman’s exploits are related in passages that are by turns exhilarating, unnerving, dizzying, and outrageous.
  • John Muir,Lee Stetson,Fiona King
  • Literary Collections
  • 2008-03-01

The Wild Muir

Twenty-two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

Author: John Muir,Lee Stetson,Fiona King

Publisher: Janus Publishing Company Ltd.

ISBN: 9781597140935

Category: Literary Collections

Page: 224

View: 9963

Here is an entertaining collection of John Muir’s most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosemite Valley to his night spent weathering a windstorm at the top of a tree to death-defying falls on Alaskan glaciers, the renowned outdoorsman’s exploits are related in passages that are by turns exhilarating, unnerving, dizzying, and outrageous.
  • Chris Highland
  • Nature
  • 2010-01-01

Meditations of John Muir

Author: Chris Highland

Publisher: Wilderness Press

ISBN: 9780899974965

Category: Nature

Page: 168

View: 4418

Editor Chris Highland pairs 60 insightful Muir quotes with selections from other celebrated thinkers and spiritual texts. Take this pocket-size guide with you on backpacks, nature hikes, and camping trips.
  • Linnie Marsh Wolfe
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • 2003-06-01

Son of the Wilderness

The Life of John Muir

Author: Linnie Marsh Wolfe

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

ISBN: 9780299186340

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 364

View: 1514

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 friend. All readers who have admired Muir's ruggedly individualistic lifestyle, and those who wish a greater appreciation for the history of environmental preservation in America, will be enthralled and enlightened by this splendid biography. The story follows Muir from his ancestral home in Scotland, through his early years in the harsh Wisconsin wilderness, to his history-making pilgrimage to California. This book, originally published in 1945 and based in large part on Wolfe's personal interviews with people who knew and worked with Muir, is one that could never be written again. It is, and will remain, the standard Muir biography.
  • John Muir
  • Nature
  • 1988

John Muir, in His Own Words

A Book of Quotations

Author: John Muir

Publisher: Great West Books

ISBN: 0944220029

Category: Nature

Page: 98

View: 2323

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. "A long-needed collection that features an excellent subject index. Painstaking bibliographic references make this an invaluable addition to one's Muir Library." (Yosemite Association.) If asked for a succinct statement of his beliefs, Muir might have replied:
  • John Muir
  • California
  • 1894

The Mountains of California

Author: John Muir

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: California

Page: 381

View: 7297

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 the study of the Yosemite Valley. After work in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, he returned to California in 1880 and made the state his home. One of the heroes of America's conservation movement, Muir deserves much of the credit for making the Yosemite Valley a protected national park and for alerting Americans to the need to protect this and other natural wonders. The mountains of California (1894) is his book length tribute to the beauties of the Sierras. He recounts not only his own journeys by foot through the mountains, glaciers, forests, and valleys, but also the geological and natural history of the region, ranging from the history of glaciers, the patterns of tree growth, and the daily life of animals and insects. While Yosemite naturally receives great attention, Muir also expounds on less well known beauty spots.
  • John Muir
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • 2006

Essential Muir

Author: John Muir

Publisher: Heyday

ISBN: N.A

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 131

View: 1871

"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," Stickeen; reflections on the society of Eskimos;Muir's touching tribute, after a lifetime of wonder, to the mighty baobob trees of Africa; and more. Fred D. White's selection from Muir's writings, and his illuminating commentary, reveal the coherence and drama of a remarkable life: new readers will understand why Muir has become an American icon, and readers who are familiar with his work will be delighted with this fresh look. Muir's fierce love of all of nature, from squirrels to glaciers (but perhaps not sheep), continues to inspire us nearly a century after his death."--Book jacket.
  • John Muir,Linnie Marsh Wolfe
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • 1979

John of the Mountains

The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Author: John Muir,Linnie Marsh Wolfe

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

ISBN: 9780299078843

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 459

View: 8606

John Muir, America's pioneer conservationist and father of the national park system, was a man of considerable literary talent. As he explored the wilderness of the western part of the United States for decades, he carried notebooks with him, narrating his wanderings, describing what he saw, and recording his scientific researches. This reprint of his journals, edited by Linnie Marsh Wolfe in 1938 and long out of print, offers an intimate picture of Muir and his activities during a long and productive period of his life. 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. The earlier journals capture the essence of the Sierra Nevada and Alaska landscapes. The changing appearance of the Sierras from Sequoia north and beyond the Yosemites enthralled Muir, and the first four years of the journals reveal his dominating concern with glacial action. The later notebooks reflect his changes over the years, showing a mellowing of spirit and a deep concern for human rights. Like all his writings, the journals concentrate on his observations in the wilderness. His devotion to his family, his many warm friendships, and his many-sided public life are hardly mentioned. Very little is said about the quarter-century battle for national parks and forest reserves. The notebooks record, in language fuller and freer than his more formal writings, the depth of his love and transcendental feeling for the wilderness. The rich heritage of his native Scotland and the unconscious music of the poetry of Burns, Milton, and the King James Bible permeate the language of his poetic fancy. In his later life, Muir attempted to sort out these journals and, at the request of friends, published a few extracts. A year after his death in 1914, his literary executor and biographer, William Frederick Badè, also published episodes from the journals. Linnie Marsh Wolfe set out to salvage the best of his writings still left unpublished in 1938 and has thus added to our understanding of the life and thought of a complex and fascinating American figure.
  • John Muir
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • 1992

John Muir

The Eight Wilderness Discovery Books

Author: John Muir

Publisher: The Mountaineers Books

ISBN: 9780898863352

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 1030

View: 3485

Features the eight influential books in which John Muir reflects on the beauty of America's wilderness and fights for their protection.
  • John Muir
  • National parks and reserves
  • 1901

Our National Parks

Author: John Muir

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: National parks and reserves

Page: 370

View: 1896

  • Donald Worster
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • 2011-05-01

A Passion for Nature

The Life of John Muir

Author: Donald Worster

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 0199782245

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 535

View: 7869

Donald Worster's A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written. It is the first to be based on Muir's full private correspondence and to meet modern scholarly standards, yet it is also full of rich detail and personal anecdote, uncovering the complex inner life behind the legend of the solitary mountain man. It traces Muir from his boyhood in Scotland and frontier Wisconsin to his adult life in California right after the Civil War up to his death on the eve of World War I. It explores his marriage and family life, his relationship with his abusive father, his many friendships with the humble and famous (including Theodore Roosevelt and Ralph Waldo Emerson), and his role in founding the modern American conservation movement. Inspired by Muir's passion for the wilderness, Americans created a long and stunning list of national parks and wilderness areas, Yosemite most prominent among them. Yet the book also describes a Muir who was a successful fruit-grower, a talented scientist and world-traveler, a doting father and husband, and a self-made man of wealth and political influence. The winner of numerous book awards, A Passion for Nature was also named a Best Book of 2008 by Washington Post Book World. It is the first comprehensive biography of Muir to appear in six decades.
  • Bonnie J. Gisel
  • Nature
  • 2017-03-20

The Wilder Muir

The Curious Nature of John Muir

Author: Bonnie J. Gisel

Publisher: Yosemite Conservancy

ISBN: 1930238797

Category: Nature

Page: 224

View: 2515

Whether he is cheering for untamed mountain sheep or braving a high-country storm that would sweep away lesser mortals, John Muir—outdoorsman, scientist, author—is forever passionate, often droll, and always inspirational. This collection of his little-known pieces have been culled from private letters, magazine articles, and personal journals from deep in the archives. In Bonnie Gisel’s able hands, Muir takes the reader on thrilling adventures and remarkable discoveries. His first summit of Half Dome, his great epiphany about the “living glaciers of the Sierra,” and his jolly ode to the giant sequoia are all presented here with awe and affection. A nearly penniless young Muir sleeps under the stars in a Florida graveyard. Muir the father prods his wife in the back with a stick, “helping” her up Yosemite’s Four Mile Trail. And an older yet still adventurous Muir summits Mount Rainier and survives the perilously icy descent. Certain to delight fans of The Wild Muir, these audacious exploits reveal John Muir’s boundless curiosity and love of all things wild.
  • John Muir
  • Nature
  • 2011

Wilderness Essays

Author: John Muir

Publisher: Gibbs Smith

ISBN: 1423607120

Category: Nature

Page: 263

View: 338

Part of John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their preservation. His successes dot the landscape and are evident in all the natural features that bear his name: forests, lakes, trails, and glaciers. Here collected are some of Muir's finest wilderness essays, ranging in subject matter from Alaska to Yellowstone, from Oregon to the High Sierra.This book is part of a series that celebrates the tradition of literary naturalists--writers who embrace the natural world as the setting for some of our most euphoric and serious experiences. These books map the intimate connections between the human and the natural world. Literary naturalists transcend political boundaries, social concerns, and historical milieus; they speak for what Henry Beston called the "other nations" of the planet. Their message acquires more weight and urgency as wild places become increasingly scarce.
  • John Muir
  • Travel
  • 2017-07-04

A THOUSAND-MILE WALK TO THE GULF (Illustrated Edition)

Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies

Author: John Muir

Publisher: Musaicum Books

ISBN: 8075838173

Category: Travel

Page: 275

View: 5711

In September 1867, Muir undertook a walk of about 1,000 miles from Indiana to Florida, which he recounted in his book A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. He had no specific route chosen, except to go by the "wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find". Earlier that year, an accident changed the course of his life when a tool he was using slipped and struck him in the eye. He was confined to a darkened room for six weeks, worried whether he would ever regain his sight. When he did, he saw the world and his purpose in a new light. Muir later wrote, "This affliction has driven me to the sweet fields. God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons." From that point on, he determined to be true to himself and follow his dream of exploration and study of plants. John Muir (1838-1914) was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is a prominent American conservation organization.
  • John Muir
  • Yosemite Valley (Calif.)
  • 1912

The Yosemite

Author: John Muir

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Yosemite Valley (Calif.)

Page: 284

View: 4183

  • Joseph Cornell
  • Juvenile Nonfiction
  • 2011-01-01

John Muir: My Life with Nature

Author: Joseph Cornell

Publisher: Dawn Publications

ISBN: 1584694653

Category: Juvenile Nonfiction

Page: 80

View: 5999

This is THE BEST John Muir biography for children, says Jill Harcke, co-producer of the John Muir Tribute CD. Written mostly in the words of Muir, it brims with his spirit and adventures. The text was selected and retold by naturalist Joseph Cornell, author of Sharing Nature with Children, who is well known for his inspiring nature games. The result is a book with an aliveness, a presence of goodness, adventure, enthusiasm, and sensitive love of each animal and plant that will give young adults an experience of a true champion of nature. It is a book that expands your sense of hope, adventure, and awareness. Adults will be just as fond of this book as young readers. Cornell includes numerous explore more activities that help the reader to understand and appreciate the many wonderful qualities of Muir.
  • John Muir
  • Agriculture
  • 1911

My First Summer in the Sierra

Author: John Muir

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Agriculture

Page: 353

View: 328

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 the study of the Yosemite Valley. After work in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, he returned to California in 1880 and made the state his home. One of the heroes of America's conservaton movement, Muir deserves much of the credit for making the Yosemite Valley a protected national park and for alerting Americans to the need to protect this and other natural wonders. My first summer in the Sierra (1911) is based on Muir's original journals and sketches of his 1869 stay in the Sierras. Hired to supervise a San Joaquin sheep owner's flock at the headwaters of the Merced and Tulomne Rivers, Muir sets out for the mountains in June, returning to the Valley in September. He describes the flora and fauna of the mountains as well as his visits to Yosemite and his climbs of Mt. Hoffman and other peaks in the range.
  • Thomas
  • Nature
  • 2018-03-20

Anywhere That Is Wild

John Muir's First Walk to Yosemite

Author: Thomas

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: 9781930238831

Category: Nature

Page: 64

View: 7206

Gathered from John Muir's own writings, this fascinating compilation recounts his historic, first walk from the San Francisco bay to Yosemite.
  • John Muir,Edwin Way Teale,Henry Bugbee Kane
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • 2001

The Wilderness World of John Muir

Author: John Muir,Edwin Way Teale,Henry Bugbee Kane

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

ISBN: 9780618127511

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 332

View: 3635

A collection of Muir's finest nature and environmental writings includes excerpts from all his major works, including Travels in Alaska and My First Summer in the Sierra. Reprint.