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My California - Collected Works
My California - Collected Works gathers John Muir's luminous writings on the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite, sequoia groves, glaciers, storms, rivers, and the intricate life of the American West. Combining natural history, travel narrative, spiritual autobiography, and prose-poetry, Muir writes with scientific attentiveness and prophetic ardor. His style belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of nature writing shaped by Romanticism and Transcendentalism, yet it also anticipates modern environmental literature through its insistence that wild places possess value beyond human utility. Born in Scotland in 1838 and raised in Wisconsin, Muir became a wanderer, inventor, botanist, mountaineer, and eventually one of America's most influential conservationists. His long residence in California, especially his repeated explorations of Yosemite and the High Sierra, gave him both intimate knowledge and moral urgency. These works arise from direct observation, physical hardship, and a conviction that wilderness could enlarge the soul while demanding public protection. This collection is highly recommended for readers of environmental history, American literature, conservation thought, and lyrical nonfiction. It offers not merely descriptions of California's landscapes, but a foundational vision of ecological reverence.
€ 28,30 -
The Writings of John Muir
"The Writings of John Muir, Volume 1" presents a collection of the seminal works of John Muir, the celebrated naturalist, conservationist, and writer. This volume offers readers a profound look into Muir's deep connection with the natural world, featuring essays and observations that highlight his adventures in the American West, particularly his beloved Yosemite Valley and the Sierra Nevada. Muir's eloquent prose captures the majesty and fragility of the wilderness, advocating for its preservation with a passion that resonates even today. Through vivid descriptions and insightful reflections, Muir invites readers to experience the transformative power of nature, fostering a sense of reverence and responsibility towards the environment. This collection is essential reading for anyone interested in environmental history, nature writing, or the legacy of one of America's most influential voices for conservation. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
€ 37,50 -
The Memoirs of John Muir
The Memoirs of John Muir traces the making of America's most influential wilderness prophet, moving from Scottish boyhood and the Wisconsin frontier to botanical rambles, Sierra ascents, and encounters with glaciers, forests, and storms. Its prose is both exact and ecstatic: Muir writes with the observational discipline of a naturalist and the reverent intensity of a spiritual pilgrim. In the tradition of Thoreau, Emerson, and nineteenth-century exploration narrative, the book transforms autobiography into environmental testimony. Muir was born in Dunbar, Scotland, in 1838 and immigrated with his family to Wisconsin, where hard farm labor, mechanical ingenuity, and self-education shaped his independence. A near-blinding industrial accident deepened his resolve to devote his restored sight to nature. His later journeys through the American West, especially the Sierra Nevada, made him a central figure in conservation and a founder of the Sierra Club. This volume is recommended to readers of autobiography, environmental history, and American literature alike. It offers not merely the record of an adventurous life, but a compelling argument for wonder, humility, and the preservation of wild places.
€ 11,00 -
The Mountains of California
In The Mountains of California, John Muir offers a richly observed account of the Sierra Nevada, blending natural history, travel narrative, spiritual reflection, and lyrical prose. First published in 1894, the book situates itself within nineteenth-century American nature writing, yet surpasses mere description through its ecstatic attention to glaciers, forests, storms, wildflowers, and animal life. Muir's style is at once scientific and visionary, transforming mountain landscapes into living presences and making ecological interdependence palpable. Muir's authority arises from years of intimate exploration in California's high country, where he worked, wandered, studied geology and botany, and developed the conservationist convictions that would shape American environmental thought. A Scottish-born immigrant and self-taught naturalist, he brought to the Sierra both empirical curiosity and a profound reverence for wilderness. His experiences among glaciers, sequoias, and alpine meadows directly inform the book's precision, urgency, and moral force. This volume is essential for readers interested in environmental literature, American Romanticism, conservation history, or the imaginative power of close observation. It rewards both scholarly study and contemplative reading, inviting us to see mountains not as scenery, but as dynamic, sacred, and vulnerable worlds.
€ 12,30 -
The Mountains of California (With All Original Illustrations)
The Mountains of California is John Muir's classic 1894 celebration of the Sierra Nevada, a work in which natural history, spiritual reflection, and exploratory narrative merge into a foundational text of American environmental writing. Moving from glaciers, forests, rivers, storms, and mountain meadows to the lives of trees, birds, and wild sheep, Muir writes with scientific attentiveness and lyric intensity. The inclusion of the original illustrations preserves the book's nineteenth-century documentary character and deepens its place within the literature of wilderness, Romantic naturalism, and early conservation thought. Muir, the Scottish-born naturalist, explorer, and advocate later central to the founding of the Sierra Club, wrote from years of intimate experience in California's high country. His wanderings through Yosemite and the Sierra shaped both his ecological understanding and his belief that wild landscapes possessed moral and spiritual value. The book reflects not distant observation but a life lived in direct companionship with mountains, weather, plants, and animals. This volume is recommended for readers of nature writing, environmental history, American literature, and conservation. It rewards anyone seeking not merely description of scenery, but a passionate argument for reverence toward the living earth.
€ 12,50 -
The Writings of John Muir
"The Writings of John Muir, Volume 1" presents a collection of the seminal works of John Muir, the celebrated naturalist, conservationist, and writer. This volume offers readers a profound look into Muir's deep connection with the natural world, featuring essays and observations that highlight his adventures in the American West, particularly his beloved Yosemite Valley and the Sierra Nevada. Muir's eloquent prose captures the majesty and fragility of the wilderness, advocating for its preservation with a passion that resonates even today. Through vivid descriptions and insightful reflections, Muir invites readers to experience the transformative power of nature, fostering a sense of reverence and responsibility towards the environment. This collection is essential reading for anyone interested in environmental history, nature writing, or the legacy of one of America's most influential voices for conservation. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
€ 26,50 -
Steep Trails
Steep Trails gathers John Muir's essays of travel, observation, and environmental witness across the American West, from the Sierra Nevada and Yellowstone to Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and beyond. Published posthumously in 1918, the volume reveals Muir at once as field naturalist, geologist, and prose poet: his sentences move from exact botanical and topographical notation into rapturous spiritual apprehension. In the lineage of Thoreau and Romantic nature writing, yet grounded in empirical scrutiny, the book transforms difficult journeys into meditations on wildness, deep time, and the moral claims of landscape. Muir's life made such a book almost inevitable. Scottish-born, raised in Wisconsin, and self-educated through mechanical ingenuity and wilderness wandering, he became one of America's most influential conservationists. His years in the Sierra, his role in founding the Sierra Club, and his campaigns for national parks shaped a vision in which scientific attention and reverence for nature were inseparable. These essays preserve the authority of a man who walked the terrain he defended. Steep Trails is recommended to readers of environmental literature, American intellectual history, and elegant travel writing. It offers not merely scenery, but a disciplined education in seeing wild places as living presences worthy of wonder and protection.
€ 10,90 -
John Muir's Alaska Travels
John Muir's Alaska Travels offers an evocative journey into the wild landscapes that captured the imaginations of naturalists and explorers alike. The anthology weaves together a diverse range of literary styles, from vivid narrative explorations to reflective prose, illustrating the tapestry of Alaska's untamed beauty. This carefully curated collection celebrates Alaska as seen through the perceptive eyes of John Muir and his contemporaries, showcasing standout narratives that capture the alchemy between man and nature without adhering to a singular artistic style. The anthology encompasses themes of discovery, wonder, and ecological contemplation, resonating with the broader literary movement that sought to wed scientific inquiry with narrative vividness. John Muir's Alaska Travels is enriched by the complementary perspectives of authors like John Muir and S. Hall Young, both pivotal figures within the conservation and exploration movements of their time. Their writings convey compelling insights into the historical and biogeographical contexts of late 19th-century America. Muir's deep ecological reflections and Young's adventurous spirit collectively offer invaluable contributions to environmental literature, advancing the dialogue between human experience and wilderness. This anthology aligns with the Romantic tradition, blending personal introspection with naturalist detail, and underscores the transformative power of nature on the human spirit. Ideal for both scholars and nature enthusiasts, John Muir's Alaska Travels invites readers into an exploration of Alaska's primal allure. The volume serves as a rich educational resource, providing unparalleled access to the distinct voices and styles of its contributors, all of whom converge in a rich harmony that celebrates untamed landscapes, ecological wisdom, and cultural introspection. Dive into this anthology for its unparalleled breadth of insights and its ability to fuse experiential narratives with deeper ecological understanding, fostering a dynamic dialogue among the readers and the natural world Muir and his peers revered.
€ 17,70 -
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf recounts John Muir's 1867 journey on foot from the upper Midwest through Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida, toward the warm waters of the Gulf. Drawn from his journals and published posthumously, the book combines travel narrative, natural history, and spiritual autobiography. Its prose is characteristically rapturous: botanical observation mingles with wonder, hardship, and a democratic curiosity about landscapes and people. In the lineage of Thoreau and Emerson, Muir transforms walking into a mode of philosophical attention. Muir, born in Scotland and raised in Wisconsin, became one of America's most influential naturalists and preservationists, later co-founding the Sierra Club and advocating for Yosemite. This journey followed a factory accident that nearly blinded him, an ordeal that redirected his life from mechanical invention toward direct communion with the natural world. The book therefore records not merely travel, but vocation: the awakening of a conservationist imagination. Readers interested in environmental writing, American exploration, or the moral power of wilderness will find this volume deeply rewarding. It is both an adventure and a foundational text in ecological consciousness.
€ 8,90 -
The Mountains of California
John Muir's The Mountains of California is both a foundational work of American nature writing and a lyrical geological, botanical, and spiritual portrait of the Sierra Nevada. Combining close scientific observation with rhapsodic prose, Muir describes glaciers, forests, storms, rivers, wildflowers, and animal life as parts of a vast, living order. Published in the late nineteenth-century context of exploration, conservation, and Romantic natural history, the book transforms landscape description into moral and aesthetic revelation. Muir, the Scottish-born naturalist, mountaineer, and later founder of the Sierra Club, wrote from years of intimate experience in the Californian wilderness. His work as a shepherd, explorer, amateur geologist, and tireless walker shaped the book's authority: he knew the mountains not as scenery but as habitat, sanctuary, and teacher. His advocacy for Yosemite and other wild places informs every page, giving his prose an urgency that is ecological as well as devotional. This book is highly recommended for readers of environmental literature, American history, and poetic nonfiction. It offers not merely a record of mountains, but a vision of how attention to the natural world can enlarge scientific understanding, ethical responsibility, and the human spirit.
€ 12,30 -
John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend
John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend brings together the formative autobiography of America's great naturalist with intimate correspondence that reveals the mind behind the mountain prophet. The prose is vivid, exact, and ardent, moving from Scottish childhood and Wisconsin farm labor to the awakening of scientific curiosity and spiritual wonder. Set within the tradition of nineteenth-century nature writing, it joins personal recollection with observation, moral reflection, and lyrical praise of the living world. Muir's life uniquely prepared him for such a work. Born in Dunbar in 1838 and emigrating to the American frontier, he endured strict religious discipline, hard agricultural toil, and ceaseless self-education. His mechanical ingenuity, botanical passion, long wilderness journeys, and later advocacy for Yosemite and national parks all inform these pages, making memory itself a source of ecological insight. This volume is highly recommended for readers of environmental literature, autobiography, and American intellectual history. It offers not merely the record of a remarkable life, but a compelling account of how wonder becomes knowledge, and knowledge becomes preservation.
€ 11,50 -
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth + Letters to a Friend
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, here paired with Letters to a Friend, presents John Muir's formation as both a restless child and a future prophet of wilderness. The memoir moves from Dunbar's seacoast and stern Scottish schooling to the Wisconsin frontier, where farm labor, invention, and intimate observation of fields and creatures shape his mind. Its prose is lucid, vigorous, and morally alert, belonging to the lineage of nineteenth-century autobiography and American nature writing, yet animated by a distinctly Muirian wonder. The letters add immediacy, revealing the private cadence behind the public naturalist. Muir's life explains the book's urgency. Born in Scotland in 1838 and transplanted to America as a boy, he knew hardship, religious discipline, mechanical ingenuity, and the liberating force of outdoor study. Later famed as explorer of the Sierra Nevada, advocate for Yosemite, and founder of the Sierra Club, Muir looked back to identify the origins of his ecological imagination. This volume is recommended to readers interested in environmental literature, immigrant autobiography, and the making of a conservationist mind. It offers not only recollection, but a philosophy of attention: a reminder that childhood curiosity can mature into ethical responsibility toward the living world.
€ 11,00