John Muir: Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies, Memoirs & Letters (Illustrated Edition)

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Table of Contents:
Picturesque California
The Mountains of California
Our National Parks
My First Summer in the Sierra
The Yosemite
Travels in Alaska
Stickeen: The Story of a Dog
The Cruise of the Corwin
A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf
Steep Trails
Studies in the Sierra
Articles and Speeches:
The National Parks and Forest Reservations
Save the Redwoods
Snow-Storm on Mount Shasta
Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park
A Rival of the Yosemite
The Treasures of the Yosemite
Yosemite Glaciers
Yosemite in Winter
Yosemite in Spring
Edward Henry Harriman
Edward Taylor Parsons
The Hetch Hetchy Valley
The Grand Cañon of the Colorado
Autobiographical:
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
Letters to a Friend
Tribute:
Alaska Days with John Muir by Samuel Hall Young
John Muir (1838-1914) was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is a prominent American conservation organization.

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John Muir. John Muir: Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies, Memoirs & Letters (Illustrated Edition)

John Muir: Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies, Memoirs & Letters (Illustrated Edition)

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PICTURESQUE CALIFORNIA

I. Peaks and Glaciers of the High Sierra

II. The Passes of the High Sierra

III. The Yosemite Valley

IV. Mount Shasta. 1) Summer Days at Mount Shasta

2) A Perilous Night on Shasta's Summit

3) Shasta Rambles and Modoc Memories

V. Washington and the Puget Sound. 1) Puget Sound

2) The Forests of Washington

3) People and Towns of Puget Sound

4) An Ascent of Mount Rainier

VI. The Basin of the Columbia River. 1) The Physical and Climatic Characteristics of Oregon

2) The Forests of Oregon and their Inhabitants

3) The Rivers of Oregon

THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA

Chapter 1. The Sierra Nevada

Chapter 2. The Glaciers

Chapter 3. The Snow

Chapter 4. A Near View of the High Sierra

Chapter 5. The Passes

Chapter 6. The Glacier Lakes

Chapter 7. The Glacier Meadows

Chapter 8. The Forests

Chapter 9. The Douglas Squirrel

Chapter 10. A Wind-storm in the Forests

Chapter 11. The River Floods

Chapter 12. Sierra Thunder-Storms

Chapter 13. The Water-Ouzel

Chapter 14. The Wild Sheep

Chapter 15. In the Sierra Foot-Hills

Chapter 16. The Bee-Pastures

OUR NATIONAL PARKS

Preface

Chapter I. The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West

Chapter II. The Yellowstone National Park

Chapter III. The Yosemite National Park

Chapter IV. The Forests of the Yosemite Park

Chapter V. The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park

Chapter VI. Among the Animals of the Yosemite

Chapter VII. Among the Birds of the Yosemite

Chapter VIII. The Fountains and Streams of the Yosemite National Park

Chapter IX. The Sequoia and General Grant National Parks

Chapter X. The American Forests

MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA

CHAPTER I. THROUGH THE FOOTHILLS WITH A FLOCK OF SHEEP

CHAPTER II. IN CAMP ON THE NORTH FORK OF THE MERCED

CHAPTER III. A BREAD FAMINE

CHAPTER IV. TO THE HIGH MOUNTAINS

CHAPTER V. THE YOSEMITE

CHAPTER VI. MOUNT HOFFMAN AND LAKE TENAYA

CHAPTER VII. A STRANGE EXPERIENCE

CHAPTER VIII. THE MONO TRAIL

CHAPTER IX. BLOODY CAÑON AND MONO LAKE

CHAPTER X. THE TUOLUMNE CAMP

CHAPTER XI. BACK TO THE LOWLANDS

THE YOSEMITE

Chapter 1. The Approach to the Valley

The Sierra From The West

Characteristics Of The Cañons

The Incomparable Yosemite

The Approach To The Valley

The First View: The Bridal Veil

General Features Of The Valley

The Upper Cañons

Natural Features Near The Valley

Down The Yosemite Creek

The Yosemite Fall

A Wonderful Ascent

The Grandeur Of The Yosemite Fall

The Nevada Fall

The Vernal Fall

The Illilouette Fall

The Minor Falls

The Beauty Of The Rainbows

An Unexpected Adventure

Climate And Weather

Winter Beauty Of The Valley

Exploring An Ice Cone

Chapter 2. Winter Storms and Spring Floods

An Extraordinary Storm And Flood

Chapter 3. Snow-Storms

Avalanches

A Ride On An Avalanche

The Streams In Other Seasons

Chapter 4. Snow Banners

A Wonderful Winter Scene

Earthquake Storms

Chapter 5. The Trees of the Valley

Chapter 6. The Forest Trees in General

The Sugar Pine, King Of Pine Trees

The Yellow Or Silver Pine

The Douglas Spruce

The Incense Cedar

The Silver Firs

The Two-Leaved Pine

The Mountain Pine

The Western Juniper

The Mountain Hemlock

The White-Bark Pine

The Nut Pine

Chapter 7. The Big Trees

Chapter 8. The Flowers

Chapter 9. The Birds

Chapter 10. The South Dome

Chapter 11. The Ancient Yosemite Glaciers: How the Valley Was Formed

Chapter 12. How Best to Spend One's Yosemite Time

One-Day Excursions. No. 1

One-Day Excursions. No. 2

Two-Day Excursions. No. 1

Two-Day Excursions. No. 2

A Three-Day Excursion

The Upper Tuolumne Excursion

Other Trips From The Valley

Chapter 13. Early History Of The Valley

Chapter 14. Lamon

Chapter 15. Galen Clark

Chapter 16. Hetch Hetchy Valley

Appendix A. Legislation About the Yosemite

Appendix B. Table of Distances

Appendix C. Maximum Rates for Transportation

TRAVELS IN ALASKA

Preface

Part I. The Trip of 1879

Chapter I. Puget Sound and British Columbia

Chapter II. Alexander Archipelago and the Home I found in Alaska

Chapter III. Wrangell Island and Alaska Summers

Chapter IV. The Stickeen River

Chapter V. A Cruise in the Cassiar

Chapter VI. The Cassiar Trail

Chapter VII. Glenora Peak

Chapter VIII. Exploration of the Stickeen Glaciers

Chapter IX. A Canoe Voyage to Northward

Chapter X. The Discovery of Glacier Bay

Chapter XI. The Country of the Chilcats

Chapter XII. The Return to Fort Wrangell

Chapter XIII. Alaska Indians

Part II. The Trip of 1880

Chapter XIV. Sum Dum Bay

Chapter XV. From Taku River to Taylor Bay

Chapter XVI. Glacier Bay

Part III. The Trip of 1890

Chapter XVII. In Camp at Glacier Bay

Chapter XVIII. My Sled-Trip on the Muir Glacier

Chapter XIX. Auroras

Glossary of Words in the Chinook Jargon

STICKEEN: THE STORY OF A DOG

THE CRUISE OF THE CORWIN

Introduction

Chapter I. Unalaska and the Aleuts

Chapter II. Among the Islands of Bering Sea

Chapter III. Siberian Adventures

Chapter IV. In Peril from the Pack

Chapter V. A Chukchi Orator

Chapter VI. Eskimos and Walrus

Chapter VII. At Plover Bay and St. Michael

Chapter VIII. Return of the Search Party

Chapter IX. Villages of the Dead

Chapter X. Glimpses of Alaskan Tundra

Chapter XI. Caribou and a Native Fair

Chapter XII. Zigzags among the Polar Pack

Chapter XIII. First Ascent of Herald Island

Chapter XIV. Approaching a Myserious Land

Chapter XV. The Land of the White Bear

Chapter XVI. Tragedies of the Whaling Fleet

Chapter XVII. Meeting the Point Barrow Expedition

Chapter XVIII. A Siberian Reindeer Herd

Chapter XIX. Turned Back by Storms and Ice

Chapter XX. Homeward Bound

Appendix I. The Glaciation of the Arctic and Subarctic Regions Visited during the Cruise

Appendix II. Botanical Notes

Introductory

Unalaska

St. Lawrence Island

St. Michael

Golofnin Bay

Kotzebue Sound

Cape Thompson

Cape Prince Of Wales

Twenty Miles East of Cape Lisburne

Cape Wankarem, Siberia

Plover Bay, Siberia

Herald Island

Wrangell Land

A THOUSAND-MILE WALK TO THE GULF

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. KENTUCKY FORESTS AND CAVES

CHAPTER II. Crossing the Cumberland Mountains

CHAPTER III. THROUGH THE RIVER COUNTRY OF GEORGIA

CHAPTER IV. CAMPING AMONG THE TOMBS

CHAPTER V. THROUGH FLORIDA SWAMPS AND FORESTS

CHAPTER VI. CEDAR KEYS

CHAPTER VII. A SOJOURN IN CUBA

CHAPTER VIII. BY A CROOKED ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA

CHAPTER IX. TWENTY HILL HOLLOW[1]

STEEP TRAILS

EDITOR'S NOTE

I. WILD WOOL

II. A Geologist's Winter Walk3

III. Summer Days at Mount Shasta

IV. A Perilous Night on Shasta's Summit

V. Shasta Rambles and Modoc Memories

VI. The City of the Saints8

VII. A Great Storm in Utah9

VIII. Bathing in Salt Lake10

IX. Mormon Lilies11

X. The San Gabriel Valley12

XI. The San Gabriel Mountains13

XII. Nevada Farms15

XIII. Nevada Forests17

XIV. Nevada's Timber Belt19

XV. Glacial Phenomena in Nevada20

XVI. Nevada's Dead Towns21

XVII. Puget Sound

XVIII. The Forests of Washington

XIX. People and Towns of Puget Sound

XX. An Ascent of Mount Rainier

XXI. The Physical and Climatic Characteristics of Oregon

XXII. The Forests of Oregon and their Inhabitants

XXIII. The Rivers of Oregon

XXIV. The Grand Canyon of the Colorado

Footnotes

STUDIES IN SIERRA

I. Mountain Sculpture

II. Mountain Sculpture. Origin of Yosemite Valleys

Depth of Yosemite

III. Ancient Glaciers and Their Pathways

Yosemite Creek Glacier

Hoffmann Glacier

Tenaya Glacier

Nevada or South Lyell Glacier

Illilouette

IV. Glacial Denudation

The Present Sierra and Glacial Action

Moraines

Methods of Glacial Denudation

Quantity of Glacial Denudation

V. Post-Glacial Denudation

VI. Formation of Soils

VII. Mountain-Building

Articles and Speeches

THE NATIONAL PARKS AND FOREST RESERVATIONS

SAVE THE REDWOODS

SNOW-STORM ON MOUNT SHASTA

FEATURES OF THE PROPOSED YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

THE HETCH HETCHY VALLEY

A RIVAL OF THE YOSEMITE

The Cañon of the South Fork of Kings River, California

ITS GENERAL CHARACTER

THE TRIP TO THE VALLEY

CHIEF FEATURES OF THE CAÑON

THE VALLEY FLOOR

TYNDALL CAÑON

PARADISE CAÑON

A SUMMER SCENE

FROM YOSEMITE TO KING’S RIVER ALONG THE SIERRA

DESTRUCTIVE TENDENCIES

GAME AND SPORT

EXCRUSIONS FROM THE VALLEY

MTS. TYNDALL, KEARSARGE, AND WHITNEY

THE TEHIPITEE VALLEY

THE NEED OF ANOTHER GREAT NATIONAL PARK

THE TREASURES OF THE YOSEMITE

YOSEMITE GLACIERS

BRANCH BASINS

YOSEMITE VALLEY

GLACIER HISTORY

RIBBON STREAM BASIN

VANISHED GLACIERS

YOSEMITE RIVER BASINS

DEER IN THE VALLEY

A GLACIER'S DEATH

YOSEMITE IN WINTER

YOSEMITE IN SPRING

THE MANNERS OF THE EARTHQUAKE

THE WATERFALLS

EDWARD HENRY HARRIMAN

EDWARD TAYLOR PARSONS

THE HETCH HETCHY VALLEY

THE GRAND CAÑON OF THE COLORADO

Autobiography

THE STORY OF MY BOYHOOD AND YOUTH

I. A BOYHOOD IN SCOTLAND

II. A NEW WORLD

III. LIFE ON A WISCONSIN FARM

IV. A PARADISE OF BIRDS

V. YOUNG HUNTERS

VI. THE PLOUGHBOY

VII. KNOWLEDGE AND INVENTIONS

VIII. THE WORLD AND THE UNIVERSITY

Letters

LETTERS TO A FRIEND

Tribute

ALASKA DAYS WITH JOHN MUIR. by Samuel Hall Young

THUNDER BAY

I. THE MOUNTAIN

THE MOUNTAIN'S FAITH

II. THE RESCUE

TOW-A-ATT

III. THE VOYAGE

MOONLIGHT IN GLACIER BAY

IV. THE DISCOVERY

NIGHT IN A CANOE

V. THE LOST GLACIER

MY FRIENDS

VI. THE DOG AND THE MAN

JOHN MUIR

VII. THE MAN IN PERSPECTIVE

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John Muir

PICTURESQUE CALIFORNIA

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After the fame of Yosemite had spread far and wide, and he had acquired sufficient means to enjoy a long afternoon of life in easy affluence, he died. He was a fine, erect, whole-souled man more than six feet high. No stranger to hunger and weariness, he was quick to feel for others, and many there be, myself among the number, who knew his simple kindness that gained expression in a thousand small deeds. A block of Yosemite granite, chiselled and lettered, marks his grave, and some of his fruit trees still live, but his finest monument is in the hearts of his friends. He sleeps in a beautiful spot among trees and flowers near the foot of the Yosemite Fall, and every crystal pressing on his coffin vibrates in harmony with its sublime music.

Before the Sierra was explored, Yosemite was generally regarded as a solitary, unrelated wonder. But many other valleys like it have been discovered, which occupy the same relative positions on the flank of the range, were formed by the same forces in the same kind of granite, and have similar waterfalls, sculpture, and vegetation. One of these, called "Hetch Hetchy" by the Indians, lies in a north-westerly direction from Yosemite, at a distance of about eighteen miles, and is easily accessible by a trail that leaves the Big Oak Flat road at Bronson Meadows, a few miles below Crane Flat.

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