John Muir, read by Brett Barry. Silver Hollow Audio, , unabridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $34.95 ISBN 978-0-9793115-5-0 Shortly after the end of the Civil War, Muir made his first trip to the Sierra ...

Author Donald Worster has written the first comprehensive biography of John Muir, the first environmentalist and the founder of the Sierra Club. Drawing on his own expertise in the emerging field of ...

In 1998, journalist Dean King went on a family trip to Yosemite National Park for the first time. “Inspiration Point, true to its name, was incredibly inspiring,” King recalled recently in a video ...

In October 1867, the 29-year-old naturalist John Muir, looking rather the worse for wear, stumbled into the tiny island community of Cedar Key, Fla. For 53 days straight, he had botanized his way ...

Mar 21, 2023 Mar 21, 2023 Updated Mar 21, 2023 0 On the bright side, Dean King was not shot at in the process of writing his new book, as he had been when ventured into the mountains of West Virginia ...

In nature documentaries such as A Perfect Planet and Planet Earth, the wilderness seems free of human influence, Emma Marris wrote in a recent story for The Atlantic. Sweeping, unpeopled vistas and ...

Although I’ve lived in a small Western town for 30 years now, I have never known much about one of its fundamental institutions, the service club. Many small-town residents still center their lives on ...

McCully (Mirette on the High Wire) uses history and biography as a springboard to a story about how naturalist and writer John Muir befriended a child who shared his love of the outdoors. In 1868 ...

In 1903, the American conservationist John Muir — legendary nature writer, founder of the Sierra Club, lover of sequoias, camping buddy of Teddy Roosevelt — set off on a botanical world tour or, as he ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. John Muir (1834-1914) may be well known in the U.S., but perhaps not so much abroad. Lomig, a French artist, ...

Who was John Muir? You’ve probably seen his immortal line “the mountains are calling and I must go", quoted countless times on Instagram or printed on any number of hoodies or camping mugs. You may ...