The Wilderness World of John Muir

by Muir, John

• ISBN13: 9780618127511
• ISBN10: 0618127518
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-20
• Publisher: Houghton Miff

Summary

During John Muir's extraordinary life as a conservationist, he 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 given major credit 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. Edwin Way Teale has collected here the best of Muir's writing, selected from all of his major works, including MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA and TRAVELS IN ALASKA. THE WILDERNESS WORLD OF JOHN MUIR provides "reading that is often magnificent, thrilling, exciting, breathtaking, and awe-inspiring" (Kirkus Reviews).

Author Biography

John Muir (1838-1914) was one of the most influential conservationists and nature writers in American history.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
Memories of Youth
Boyhood in Scotland	p. 3
The New World	p. 27
A Paradise of Birds	p. 35
The Well	p. 48
Knowledge and Inventions	p. 51
The World and the University	p. 60
University of the Wilderness
Start of the 1000-Mile Walk	p. 75
People by the Way	p. 77
A Tennessee Memory	p. 86
Camping Among the Tombs	p. 87
The Cuban Shore	p. 95
New York	p. 96
The Range of Light
First Glimpse of the Sierra	p. 99
Bee Pastures	p. 102
Start for the High Sierra	p. 106
Billy the Shepherd	p. 110
The Amorous Dog	p. 111
The Mossy Boulder	p. 113
Leaf Shadows	p. 115
The Indian	p. 116
Bread Famine	p. 119
On the Brink of Yosemite Falls	p. 124
The Bear, the Fly and the Grasshopper	p. 129
Professor Butler	p. 134
The Valley
The Grandeur of Yosemite Falls	p. 143
Illilouette Falls	p. 145
The Water Ouzel	p. 147
Emerson at Yosemite	p. 162
The Earthquake	p. 166
Snow-Banners	p. 170
Tracks in the Sand	p. 175
Forests of the West
Wind-Storm in the Forest	p. 181
The Dwarf Pine	p. 191
Song of the Silver Pine	p. 193
The Douglas Squirrel	p. 195
Sequoia	p. 207
Nevada Nut Pines	p. 226
Any Fool Can Destroy a Tree	p. 231
Glacier Pioneer
Discovery of the Sierra Glaciers	p. 235
Shadow Lake	p. 241
A Fall in the Mountains	p. 244
Mount Ritter	p. 246
A Perilous Night on Mount Shasta	p. 251
Discovery of Glacier Bay	p. 266
Glaciers by Starlight	p. 272
Fire in the Rain	p. 274
Stickeen	p. 277
Villages of the Dead	p. 297
Slaughter of the Walruses	p. 301
Alaskan Auroras	p. 303
The Philosophy of John Muir	p. 311
Index	p. 325
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