Wilderness World of John Muir

Name: Wilderness World of John Muir
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ISBN: 9780618127511

ISBN-10: 0618127518

ISBN-13: 9780618127511

Edition: 2001

Authors: Edwin Way Teale, John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, John Muir

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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…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/20/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction



Memories of Youth


Boyhood in Scotland


The New World


A Paradise of Birds


The Well


Knowledge and Inventions


The World and the University



University of the Wilderness


Start of the 1000-Mile Walk


People by the Way


A Tennessee Memory


Camping Among the Tombs


The Cuban Shore


New York



The Range of Light


First Glimpse of the Sierra


Bee Pastures


Start for the High Sierra


Billy the Shepherd


The Amorous Dog


The Mossy Boulder


Leaf Shadows


The Indian


Bread Famine


On the Brink of Yosemite Falls


The Bear, the Fly and the Grasshopper


Professor Butler



The Valley


The Grandeur of Yosemite Falls


Illilouette Falls


The Water Ouzel


Emerson at Yosemite


The Earthquake


Snow-Banners


Tracks in the Sand



Forests of the West


Wind-Storm in the Forest


The Dwarf Pine


Song of the Silver Pine


The Douglas Squirrel


Sequoia


Nevada Nut Pines


Any Fool Can Destroy a Tree



Glacier Pioneer


Discovery of the Sierra Glaciers


Shadow Lake


A Fall in the Mountains


Mount Ritter


A Perilous Night on Mount Shasta


Discovery of Glacier Bay


Glaciers by Starlight


Fire in the Rain


Stickeen


Villages of the Dead


Slaughter of the Walruses


Alaskan Auroras



The Philosophy of John Muir


Index