John Muir
John Muir

Author: John Muir

Publisher: The Mountaineers Books

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 940

ISBN-13: 9780898864632

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

Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World
Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World

Author: John Muir

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-11-19

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 113416601X

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This survey of Greek letter writing from a well-known and respected author introduces students to the whole range of letter writing in the Greek world, and its problems. Greeks wrote letters to each other for business and diplomatic purposes, as teacher to pupil, and as addresses to the wider world.

A Passion for Nature
A Passion for Nature

Author: Donald Worster

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 0199782245

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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.

Selected Writings of John Muir
Selected Writings of John Muir

Author: John Muir

Publisher: Everyman's Library

Published: 2017-04-04

Total Pages: 826

ISBN-13: 1101907622

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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.

John Muir
John Muir

Author: John Muir

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1626980357

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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.

John Muir, in His Own Words
John Muir, in His Own Words

Author: John Muir

Publisher: Great West Books

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 0944220029

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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:

Wisdom of John Muir
Wisdom of John Muir

Author: Anne Rowthorn

Publisher: Wilderness Press

Published: 2012-04-10

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0899976956

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The Wisdom of John Muir marries the best aspects of a Muir anthology with the best aspects of a Muir biography. The fact that it is neither, and yet it is both, distinguishes this book from the many extant books on John Muir. Building on her lifelong passion for the work and philosophy of John Muir, author Anne Rowthorn has created this entirely new treatment for showcasing the great naturalist's philosophy and writings. By pairing carefully selected material from various stages of Muir's life, Rowthorn's book provides a view into the experiences, places, and people that inspired and informed Muir's words and beliefs. The reader feels able to join in with Muir's own discoveries and transformations over the arc of his life. Rowthorn is careful not to overstep her role: she stands back and lets Muir's words speak for themselves.