Books by John Muir

This volume of John Muir's selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American wilderness.

The Story of My boyhood and Youth is a series of essays on the three worlds of the young John Muir: his first eleven years in an old town in Scotland, the years 1849-1860 in the central Wisconsin wilderness, during the time the area was being settled, and four years at the University of Wisconsin.

A celebration of Sierra from one of the founding fathers of modern conservation. Introduced by Robert Macfarlane

John Muir lived, as he put it, 'in an infinite storm of beauty.' 'No other writer is so ceaselessly astonished by the natural world, or communicates that astonishment more urgently., (Robert Macfarlane)