The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

8 best books like The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures (Lee Stetson): The Mountains of California, Underland, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir, Stickeen: John Muir and the Brave Little Dog, Meditations of John Muir, Man & Horse: The Long Ride Across America

The Mountains of California

Author

John Muir

John Muir’s ebullient spirit and love of nature infuse these accounts of visiting Yosemite Valley, Kings Canyon, sequoia groves, and Mount Whitney. Blending keen observations of flora, geography, and geology, the natural forces that shape the landscape, and the changing seasons, Muir paints...

Underland

Author	Robert Macfarlane
ISBN	0393242145

An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.

In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...

Travels in Alaska

Author	John Muir
ISBN	0781201543

In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of Alaska, irresistibly drawn to its awe-inspiring glaciers and its wild menagerie of bears, bald eagles, wolves, and whales. Half-poet and half-geologist, he recorded his experiences and reflections...

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

Author	John Muir
ISBN	0395901472

Here is the adventure that started John Muir on a lifetime of discovery. Taken from his earliest journals, this book records Muir's walk in 1867 from Indiana across Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to the Gulf Coast. In his distinct and wonderful style, Muir shows us the wilderness,...

Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir

Author	Linnie Marsh Wolfe
ISBN	0299186342

Working closely with Muir’s family and with his papers, Wolfe was able to create a full portrait of her subject, not only as America’s firebrand conservationist and founder of the national park system, but also as husband, father, and friend. All readers who have admired Muir’s ruggedly individualistic...

Stickeen: John Muir and the Brave Little Dog

Author	John Muir
ISBN	1883220785

This true tale actually happened in Alaska to the famous naturalist, John Muir, and it became what he called the most memorable of all his wild days. One day, Muir set out to explore a huge glacier during a blizzard. Stickeen--an aloof little dog belonging to a fellow traveler--insisted on going along....

Meditations of John Muir

Author	Chris Highland
ISBN	0899972853

Beautiful quotes from Muir's work are signed off at the end of each page with prayers and quotes from all religions.

"Come to the woods, for here is rest.
There is no repose like that of the
green deep woods.
Here grow the wallflower and the violet.
The squirrel will come and sit...

Man & Horse: The Long Ride Across America

Author

John Egenes

In 1974 a disenfranchised young man from a broken home set out to do the impossible. With a hundred dollars in his pocket, a beat up cavalry saddle, and a faraway look in his eye, John Egenes saddled his horse Gizmo and started down the trail on an adventure across the North American continent. Their seven...