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The Wilderness World of John Muir

By: John Muir

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The Wilderness World of John Muir

By: John Muir

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 generation a picture of an America still wild and unsettled only one hundred years ago. In The Wildernesss World of John Muir Edwin Way Teale has selected the best of Muir's writing from all of his major works--including My First Summer in the Sierra and Travels in Alaska--to provide a singular collection that provides to be "magnificent, thrilling, exciting, breathtaking, and awe-inspiring" (Kirkus Reviews).

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618127518

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9780618127511

John of the Mountains

The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

By: John Muir

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John of the Mountains

The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

By: John Muir

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.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299078809

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9780299078805

John Muir

His Life and Letters and Other Writings

By: John Muir,Terry Gifford

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John Muir

His Life and Letters and Other Writings

By: John Muir,Terry Gifford

Contains portions of Muir's autobiography, letters, his lesser known books, and essays

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The Mountaineers Books

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0898864631

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9780898864632

Selected Writings of John Muir

Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams

By: John Muir

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Selected Writings of John Muir

Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams

By: John Muir

A new collection of the seminal writings of America's first naturalist and the founder of the modern conservation movement. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY ORIGINAL. This volume of John Muir's selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American wilderness. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is Muir's account of his childhood on a Wisconsin farm, where his interest in nature was first piqued; in The Mountains of California, The Yosemite, and Travels in Alaska, we follow him on long journeys into stunning mountain ranges and valleys, where he records native flora and fauna and finds proof of his theories of the effect of glaciers on landscape formation. These four full-length works--along with a selection of important essays--helped galvanize American naturalists, and led to the founding of the Sierra Club and several national parks. In these pages, written with meticulous thoroughness and an impassioned lyricism, we witness Muir's awakening to the incredible beauty of our planet, and the honing of an eye turned as acutely toward the scientific as the spiritual.

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826

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Everyman's Library

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1101907622

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9781101907627

Our National Parks

By: John Muir

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Our National Parks

By: John Muir

This collection of essays celebrates those park lands of the American West that John Muir knew and loved.

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Univ of California Press

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0871566265

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9780871566263

John Muir

Spiritual Writings

By: John Muir

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John Muir

Spiritual Writings

By: John Muir

Scottish naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) helped spark the modern environmental movement. Living for months and even years in the wilderness, he experienced a deep communion with the sacred and his contemplations on the natural world are filled with mystical intuitions of God's reality. This volume contributes to a strain of spirituality that finds an echo in today's environmental movements.

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Orbis Books

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1626980357

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9781626980358

Journeys in the Wilderness

A John Muir Reader

By: John Muir

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Journeys in the Wilderness

A John Muir Reader

By: John Muir

The name of John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both America and Britain. Born in Dunbar in the east of Scotland in 1838, Muir is famed as the father of American conservation, and as the first person to promote the idea of National Parks. Combining acute observation with a sense of inner discovery, Muir's writings of his travels through some of the greatest landscapes on Earth, including the Carolinas, Florida, Alaska and those lands which were to become the great National Parks of Yosemite and the Sierra Valley, raise an awareness of nature to a spiritual dimension. These journals provide a unique marriage of scientific survey of natural history with lyrical and often amusing anecdotes, retaining a freshness, intensity and brutal honesty which will amaze the modern reader. This collection, including the never-before-published "Stickeen", presents the finest of Muir's writings, and imparts a rounded portrait of a man whose generosity, passion, discipline and vision are an inspiration to this day.

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773

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Birlinn

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0857905155

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9780857905154

The Wisdom of John Muir

100+ Selections from the Letters, Journals, and Essays of the Great Naturalist

By: Anne Rowthorn

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The Wisdom of John Muir

100+ Selections from the Letters, Journals, and Essays of the Great Naturalist

By: Anne Rowthorn

Largely using the Muir's own words, the author looks at the experiences, places and people that inspired and informed the naturalist's words and beliefs. Selected and commented on by the author of Your Daily Life Is Your Temple. Original.

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Wilderness Press

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0899976948

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9780899976945

John Muir

A Concise Biography of the Great Naturalist

By: John W. Winkley

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John Muir

A Concise Biography of the Great Naturalist

By: John W. Winkley

John Muir, Naturalist, first published in 1959, is an account of the life of John Muir (1838-1914) an early advocate of nature preservation. From his childhood in Scotland and the family’s move to Wisconsin, the book describes Muir’s early influences and his love of nature. After a time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and working in Indiana, Muir set off—on foot—to the Gulf of Mexico, and eventually ended in California, devoting time to the preservation of Yosemite and the western forests. In later life, Muir operated a large fruit farm in Martinez, California, while writing 12 books and over 300 articles, and co-founding the conservation organization the Sierra Club. Included are 6 pages of illustrations.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1839740159

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9781839740152

John Muir, in His Own Words

A Book of Quotations

By: John Muir

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John Muir, in His Own Words

A Book of Quotations

By: John Muir

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:

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Great West Books

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0944220029

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9780944220023

Collected Works of John Muir, Naturalist , Including

The Mountains of California (Illustrated in Bandw), Stickeen

By: John Muir

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The Mountains of California (Illustrated in Bandw), Stickeen

By: John Muir

John Muir (1838- 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and the modern day "patron saint of ecology." His writings on his adventures in the various wildernesses of America have been enjoyed by millions. His ecological activism helped to preserve many of the national parks, enabling others to enjoy nature. He founded the Sierra Club, which is one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States. Although his upbringing put him off religion for life he was an immensely spiritual man, and this quality and enthusiasm pervades all his writings, inspiring his readers, including politicians to preserve the natural landscapes. For this reason he is known as the "Father of the National Parks." Author William Anderson, said that Muir exemplified "the archetype of our oneness with the earth," and biographer Donald Worster said he believed his mission was ..".saving the American soul from total surrender to materialism." The Mountains of California (1894) draws on his many, decades of exploration, describing with poetic beauty and awe the lakes, mountains, plants and animals. Stickeen (1909) is Muir's most popular book, describing his adventures in Alaska with a dog. My First Summer in the Sierra (1911) is Muir's description of his spiritual awakening when he first encountered the mountains and valleys of central California. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913) is Muir's autobiography, detailing his strict upbringing in Scotland, his emigration with his family to America, aged eleven, and of his first delight with the natural world. Travels in Alaska (1915), In the late 1800s, Muir made several trips to the pristine, unspoilt territory of Alaska, drawn to its beauty and purity, its glaciers and its wild animals - bears, bald eagles, wolves, and whales. The Cruise of the Corwin (1917), In 1881, the steamship Thomas Corwin voyaged into the treacherous Arctic seas to search for the lost ship Jeannette, which had been lost. The ship was not found, but Muir's account of this expedition is poetic and magical, describing the glaciers, vegetation and seas of this mysterious land. Steep Trails(1919), This book was derived from letters, articles and local publications written by John Muir, arranged in roughly chronological sequence. The chapters describing Nevada, San Gabriel and Utah were written in the field, and have great immediacy, describing Muir's first impressions. The Yosemite(1920), In this book Muir recounts his adventures during the years he lived in the Yosemite Valley's spectacular scenery. Muir captures the breath-taking beauty of the area alongside his most ambitious adventures; looking over the brink of Yosemite Falls, climbing a hundred feet up into a high, hollow ice-cone, and climbing to the top of Half Dome, covered with a fresh blanket of snow.

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1781393540

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9781781393543

My First Summer in the Sierra

By: John Muir

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My First Summer in the Sierra

By: John Muir

An illustrated editon of John Muir's MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618988513

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9780618988518

JOHN MUIR: Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies, Memoirs & Letters (With Original Illustrations)

Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

By: John Muir

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JOHN MUIR: Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies, Memoirs & Letters (With Original Illustrations)

Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

By: John Muir

This carefully edited collection of John Muir has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all device. Table of Contents: Picturesque California The Mountains of California Our National Parks My First Summer in the Sierra The Yosemite Travels in Alaska Stickeen: The Story of a Dog The Cruise of the Corwin A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf Steep Trails Studies in the Sierra Articles and Speeches: The National Parks and Forest Reservations Save the Redwoods Snow-Storm on Mount Shasta Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park A Rival of the Yosemite The Treasures of the Yosemite Yosemite Glaciers Yosemite in Winter Yosemite in Spring Edward Henry Harriman Edward Taylor Parsons The Hetch Hetchy Valley The Grand Cañon of the Colorado Autobiographical: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth Letters to a Friend Tribute: Alaska Days with John Muir by Samuel Hall Young 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.

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e-artnow

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8075838157

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9788075838155

John Muir: Memoirs

With Original Drawings

By: John Muir

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John Muir: Memoirs

With Original Drawings

By: John Muir

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth reveals the beginnings of the forming of Muir's special relation towards nature. He considered the encounters with nature as quite an adventure and at first, paid special attention to bird life. John Muir understood that to discover truth, he must turn to what he believed were the most accurate sources. In his autobiographical account, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, he writes that during his childhood, his father made him read the Bible every day. Muir eventually memorized three-quarters of the Old Testament and all of the New Testament. In his autobiography, written near the end of his life, he described his life from childhood years in Scotland and moving to America to student years in Wisconsin. When he was a student in the University of Wisconsin, he was a frequent caller at the house of Dr. Ezra S. Carr. The kindness shown him there, and especially the sympathy which Mrs. Carr, as a botanist and a lover of nature, felt in the young manes interests and aims, led to the formation of a lasting friendship. He regarded Mrs. Carr, indeed, as his "spiritual mother," and his letters to her in later years are the outpourings of a sensitive spirit to one who he felt thoroughly understood and sympathized with him.

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802730444X

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9788027304448

Delphi Complete Works of John Muir US (Illustrated)

By: John Muir

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By: John Muir

John Muir was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, environmental philosopher, glaciologist and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays and books concern his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada, California; Muir’s activism has helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and many other wilderness areas. This comprehensive eBook presents Muir’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Muir’s life and works * Concise introductions to the books * All the nature books, with individual contents tables * Features rare works appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Features Muir’s Overland articles * Includes Muir’s autobiographies - spend hours following the author’s adventures * Special ‘Contextual Pieces’ section, with contemporary articles, reviews and essays evaluating Muir’s works * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: the biography by William Frederic Badè cannot appear in the edition due to copyright. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Books PICTURESQUE CALIFORNIA THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA STICKEEN: AN ADVENTURE WITH A DOG AND A GLACIER OUR NATIONAL PARKS EDWARD HENRY HARRIMAN THE YOSEMITE TRAVELS IN ALASKA LETTERS TO A FRIEND A THOUSAND-MILE WALK TO THE GULF THE CRUISE OF THE CORWIN STEEP TRAILS Newspaper Articles OVERLAND MONTHLY ARTICLES The Autobiographies MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA THE STORY OF MY BOYHOOD AND YOUTH Contextual Pieces JOHN MUIR: CONTEXTUAL ARTICLES, ESSAYS AND REVIEWS ZANITA: A TALE OF THE YO-SEMITE by Thérèse Yelverton THE MOUNTAIN TRAIL AND ITS MESSAGE by Albert W. Palmer ALASKA DAYS WITH JOHN MUIR by S. Hall Young Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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178656081X

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Book's by John Muir

The Wilderness World of John Muir

The Wilderness World of John Muir

John of the Mountains

John of the Mountains

John Muir

John Muir

Selected Writings of John Muir

Selected Writings of John Muir

Our National Parks

Our National Parks

John Muir

John Muir

Journeys in the Wilderness

Journeys in the Wilderness

The Wisdom of John Muir

The Wisdom of John Muir

John Muir

John Muir

John Muir, in His Own Words

John Muir, in His Own Words

Collected Works of John Muir, Naturalist , Including

Collected Works of John Muir, Naturalist , Including

My First Summer in the Sierra

My First Summer in the Sierra

JOHN MUIR: Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies, Memoirs & Letters (With Original Illustrations)

JOHN MUIR: Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies, Memoirs & Letters (With Original Illustrations)

John Muir: Memoirs

John Muir: Memoirs

Delphi Complete Works of John Muir US (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of John Muir US (Illustrated)

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