Steep Trails: California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, The Grand Canyon
This collection of little-known essays by America’s best-loved conservationist and nature writer spans twenty-nine years of John Muir’s travels in 19th-century California, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and The Grand Canyon of the Colorado, as well as among the Indians resident therein. Well written, informative, and at times thrilling—as when Muir spends a night atop storm-battered Mount Shasta—these essays portray a vanished but picturesque period in the American West.
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Linda J. Schiller-hanna "Blessed one" says:
It will make you want to hug the woods!,
John Muir, the most passionate naturalist in print. Without his
writing and political activism back in the l800’s we’d not have
the Sierra Club, Yosemite National Park, etc. etc.
Our nation owes this wonderful man a great deal of gratitude.
He writes like an angel. I am reading several of his books. Check also
into one of the greatest dog stories I’ve ever read: Stickeen.
Also read: The Mountains of California. Read everything he wrote.
He is poetic, he is a brilliant botantist, he is profoundly spiritual.
Read his boyhood biography. He memorized the whole New Testament by the
time he was 13…word for word!
His Dad was always beating him so he retreated to the wilderness
and watched the birds, learned the latin names of the flowers, and
hiked the mountains with a hard roll, no jacket, and no sleeping bag….
Someone should make a movie about him.
Read any of his books and become a John Muir fan.
I camped in Yosemite many times in my 20’s and discovered his writings
then. Its a joy to read them again and be as thrilled 40 years later!
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