Author of Audiobooks - John Muir
Steep Trails - John Muir
Steep Trails - John Muir
- Author: John Muir
- Genre: Nature / Memoirs
A collection of Muir's previously unpublished essays, released shortly after his death. "This volume will meet, in every way, the high expectations of Muir's readers. The recital of his experiences during a stormy night on the summit of Mount Shasta...
A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf - John Muir
A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf - John Muir
- Author: John Muir
- Genre: Travel & Geography
Muir was a preservationist and naturalist. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the...
Travels in Alaska - John Muir
Travels in Alaska - John Muir
- Author: John Muir
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this continental laboratory of...
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth - John Muir
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth - John Muir
- Author: John Muir
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
"The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep,- scant space for three or four small sticks, around which in hard zero weather all the family of ten shivered, and...
Stickeen - John Muir
Stickeen - John Muir
- Author: John Muir
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals
A great dog story, a well told tale--the naturalist and adventurer John Muir recounts how he and his companion, a dog named Stickeen, each, alone, confronted and conquered their fears of an icy Alaskan glacier in 1880. (Summary by Sue Anderson)...
The Yosemite - John Muir
The Yosemite - John Muir
- Author: John Muir
- Genre: Nature / Travel & Geography
John Muir's adventure guide for the Yosemite Valley....
The Mountains of California - John Muir
The Mountains of California - John Muir
- Author: John Muir
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature
John Muir (1838–1914) was one of the first modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and wildlife, especially in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, were read by millions and are still...
My First Summer in the Sierra - John Muir
My First Summer in the Sierra - John Muir
- Author: John Muir
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Nature
The journal of nature-lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California’s Sierra Nevada range. From French Bar to Mono Lake and the Yosemite Valley, Muir was awestruck by everything he saw. The antics of the smallest “insect people”...
Letters to a Friend, Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, 1866-1879 - John Muir
Letters to a Friend, Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, 1866-1879 - John Muir
- Author: John Muir
- Genre: Nature / Travel & Geography / Letters
When John Muir 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...
The Grand Cañon of the Colorado - John Muir
The Grand Cañon of the Colorado - John Muir
- Author: John Muir
- Genre: Nature
Nothing is ordinary in the world of John Muir, naturalist and author known as the Father of the US National Parks. In this short work, written in the latter part of his life for Century Magazine, Muir beckons us to come with him, unrushed, to behold...
Our National Parks - John Muir
Our National Parks - John Muir
- Author: John Muir
- Genre: Nature / Travel & Geography
This book is a collection of sketches first published in the Atlantic Monthly magazine and gathered into book form in 1901. The focus here is on 4 parks in the west. Six of the 10 articles focus on Yosemite National Park; also described are...