Essential Muir
Book - 2006
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- Published
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Santa Clara, Calif. : Berkeley, Calif. :
Santa Clara University ; Heyday Books
c2006.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- xx, 131 p. ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781597140270
- Introduction
- Part 1. The Visionary Inventor
- "Knowledge and Inventions," from The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
- "The World and the University," from The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
- Part 2. The Wandering Minstrel
- "Through the Cumberland Mountains, the River Country of Georgia, and across Florida to Cedar Keys," from A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
- Part 3. The Nature Scribe and Rhapsode
- "A Near View of the High Sierra," from The Mountains of California
- "A Windstorm in the Forest," from The Mountains of California
- "Yosemite Falls at Midnight," from The Life and Letters of John Muir
- "Nut Time in Squirrelville," from The Life and Letters of John Muir
- "Yosemite Glaciers," New York Tribune, Dec. 5, 1871
- Part 4. The Global Adventurer
- "Eskimos and Walrus," from The Cruise of the Corwin
- "Stickeen vs. the Glacier," from Stickeen
- "Voyage to East Africa," from John Muir's Last Journey
- Part 5. The Planet Steward
- "God's First Temples: How Shall We Preserve Our Forests?" Sacramento Daily Union, Feb. 5, 1876
- "The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West," Atlantic Monthly, August 1897
- Sources
- Major Works by John Muir
- About the Editor