The Mountains of California
A stirring tribute to one of America's most remote and beautiful places by one of the first modern preservationists
This Penguin Classic-Muir's first book-puts a pioneering conservationist's passion for nature in high relief. With a poet's sensitivity and a naturalist's eye, Muir celebrates the Sierra Nevada, which he dedicated his life to saving, and recounts his breathtaking visits to Yosemite Valley, Kings Canyon, Sequoia Groves, and Mount Whiskey. The Mountains of California is an affecting celebration of raw nature by one of its most ardent defenders.
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March 25, 2008JOHN MUIR was born in 1838 in Scotland, and immigrated with his family in 1849 to the United States. In 1892, he and his colleague Robert Underwood Johnson founded the Sierra Club, of which Muir was president until his death; he was also influential in establishing four national parks. Controversial during and after his lifetime, his writings on wilderness preservation became the impetus for the modern environmentalist movement. Muir died in 1914 in California.
Selected Writings of John Muir
John Muir; Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams
The Mountains of California
John Muir
My First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir
The Yosemite
John Muir
Travels in Alaska
John Muir Introduction by Edward Hoagland
The Mountains of California
John Muir
My First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir
Hand Drawn Victoria
Emma FitzGerald
Hand Drawn Vancouver
Emma FitzGerald
Lean Out
Tara Henley
All the Wrong Moves
Sasha Chapin
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence
Peter Mayle
An Innocent in Cuba
David McFadden
An Innocent in Newfoundland
David W. McFadden
The Road to Little Dribbling
Bill Bryson
Road Trip Rwanda
Will Ferguson
The White Road
Edmund de Waal
Thrilling Cities
Ian Fleming
Ordinary Russians
Barry Broadfoot
The Voyage of the Northern Magic
Diane Stuemer
The Tao of Travel
Paul Theroux
The Last Best Place
John Demont
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
Khosrow and Shirin
Nezami Ganjavi; Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Dick Davis
The Penguin Book of Elegy
Edited with an Introduction by Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan
The Portable Feminist Reader
Edited by Roxane Gay
Birds as Individuals
Len Howard
Abortion Stories
Edited with an Introduction by Karen Weingarten; Foreword by Rebecca Traister; Afterword by Renee Bracey Sherman
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf; Introduction by Lauren Groff
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Vita Nuova
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Cold Mountain Poems
Hanshan; Edited and Translated by Peter Harris
Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker's Studio
Liang Qichao; Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Peter Zarrow
My Left Foot
Christy Brown