<div><B>Five works by the naturalist considered the father of the modern conservation movement, documenting the unspoiled beauty of nineteenth-century America.</B><BR />  <BR /><I>When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. &mdash;</I>John Muir,<I> My First Summer in the Sierra</I><BR />  <BR /> The name of John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both America and Britain. Born in Scotland in 1838, Muir is famed as the father of American conservation and the founder of the Sierra Club. This collection, including the rarely seen <I>Stickeen</I>, presents the finest of Muir&rsquo;s writings, painting a portrait of a man whose generosity, passion, and vision are an inspiration to this day.<BR />  <BR /> Combining acute observation, amusing anecdotes, and a sense of inner discovery, Muir&rsquo;s writings of his travels though some of the greatest landscapes on Earth, including the Carolinas, Florida, Alaska, and those lands that were to become the great National Parks of Yosemite and the Sierra Valley, raise an awareness of nature to a spiritual dimension.<BR />  <BR /> Includes an introduction by Graham White</div>

The Wilderness Journeys

<div>In the summer of 1869, John Muir set out from California's Central Valley with a flock of sheep and trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. His journals describe the summer he spent in what would become Yosemite National Park. Celebrating the Sierra's lizards and mountain lions, tall trees and waterfalls, fierce thunderstorms and bears, Muir raises an awareness of nature to a spiritual dimension.John Muir is internationally acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of modern conservation and his vision, passion and integrity continue to inspire readers today - particularly in this, his best-loved book.</div>

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My First Summer in the Sierra

<div><B>Reflections from the famed naturalist and “Father of the National Parks” evoking the humbling beauty of the West’s mountains and forests.</B><br/><br/>John Muir’s <I>Our National Parks</I>—long an encouragement and inspiration to travelers, campers, and naturalists—is as profound for readers today as it was in 1901.<br/><br/>Take in Muir’s detailed observations of the sights, scents, sounds, and textures of Yosemite, Yellowstone, and forest reservations of the West. Be reminded that (as Muir sagely puts it), “Wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.” These vivid sketches highlight John Muir’s warmth, humor, and passionate advocacy for these public lands.<br/><br/>“In a glow of enthusiasm, he pictures the beauties of the Yosemite, the Yellowstone Park, and the region of the great sequoias, and tells of the joys of living in those earthly paradises.” —<I>The New York Times</I></div>

Our National Parks

<div><B>From one of America's greatest environmentalists, here is the adventure that started John Muir on a lifetime of discovery.</B><br/><br/>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, as well as the towns and people, of the South immediately after the Civil War.<br/><br/>This book makes the perfect gift for an aspiring naturalist, hiking enthusiast, or lover of southeastern terrain.</div>

A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf

<div><P>From the photographer who brought Thoreau&#39;s <I>Walden</I> and <I>Cape Cod</I> to life comes a new work combining classic literature with brand-new photography. This time, Scot Miller takes on the seminal work of John Muir, <I>My First Summer in the Sierra.</I> The book details Muir&#39;s first extended trip to the Sierra Nevada in what is now Yosemite National Park, a landscape that entranced him immediately and had a profound effect on his life. The towering waterfalls, natural rock formations, and abundant plant and animal life helped Muir develop his views of the natural world, views that would eventually lead him to push for the creation of the national parks. </P><P><I>My First Summer in the Sierra</I> is illustrated with Miller&#39;s stunning photographs, showcasing the dramatic landscape of the High Sierra plus John Muir&#39;s illustrations from the original edition and several previously unpublished illustrations from his 1911 manuscript. The publication of <I>My First Summer in the Sierra</I> inspired many to journey there, and this newly illustrated edition will surely inspire many more. </P><P>This book is being published in collaboration with Yosemite Conservancy and, for each copy sold, Scot Miller is making a donation to Yosemite Conservancy. <I>My First Summer in the Sierra</I> won the National Outdoor Book Award. </P></div>

<div>This memoir is perhaps one of the most immediate and vivid recollections of life in a Royal Navy battlecruiser to come out of the First World War. John Muir, a surgeon, was the senior medical officer aboard HMS Tiger from her commissioning in October 1914 until his departure in the autumn of 1916 when she was then undergoing repairs at Rosyth to the damage incurred at the battle of Jutland in June that year.  Vivid, authoritative, empathetic and beautifully written, this memoir takes the reader right to the center of the action in the first years of the War. The book begins with a stirring account of a night in the wild North Sea with Tiger, head to wind in a gale, steaming at a reduced speed of 10 knots, her purpose to intimidate the German fleet ‘by the mere terror of our presence’. The scene set, Muir’s narrative then describes his experiences from the early days of mobilization, when he was the Senior Medical Officer of the barracks at Chatham, to his arrival aboard Tiger on the Clyde, her commissioning and the drilling of fifteen hundred officers and ratings as she put out to sea for the first time. In the first months of her career she was involved in intercepting the German raid on Scarborough before fighting the battlecruisers Derfflinger, Moltke, and Seydlitz at Dogger Bank. In May 1916 she found herself in line just astern of the doomed Queen Mary at Jutland. Muir had a ringside seat at these critical and decisive clashes and brings remarkable perception and clarity in the telling of his experiences.  But more than a narrative of events, his story is also one about the officers and men who were his comrades in those years; about their qualities, their anxieties and the emotional dimension of their experiences. His insights are those of a man trained to understand the human heart, and they bring vividly to life a generation of men who fought at sea more than one hundred years ago.  This is a spellbinding and gripping memoir, brought to a new audience in a handsome collectors’ edition for the first time since its publication in 1936.</div>

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My First Summer in the Sierra

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