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How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive 19 Ed: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot

113 reviews
John Muir, Tosh Gregg

Avalon Travel Publishing, 2001

a must have for VW owners
Great book with some great tips... if you own and old VW its a must have for your collection.

Classic Nature Books: 5 Books and 2 Articles by John Muir, in a single file, with active table of contents

B&R Samizdat Express, 2008

This Kindle book includes: The Grand Canon of the Colorado (article), The Mountains of California, Steep Trails, Stickeen (article), The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Travels in Alaska, and Yosemite. According to Wikipedia: "John Muir (April 21, 1838 ? December 24, 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of conservation of U.S. wilderness. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and ...

Stickeen: John Muir and the Brave Little Dog

6 reviews
John Muir, Donnell Rubay

Dawn Pubns, 1998

An excellent adventure!
Besides being a beautiful book to look at, this lively account of John Muir's glacial wanderings with his loyal four-legged companion, Stickeen, is an artfully presented, exciting read! Dog lovers, nature lovers, and all adventurers at heart are sure to enjoy following these two on their perilous journey across the ice.

The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada (California Academy of Sciences) (California Academy of Sciences) ...

22 reviews

Heyday Books, 2007

Great Sierra field guide
I have at least 10 books specifically on Sierra wildflowers and several field guides. This is the best all-in-one book. It's not too heavy for me to carry on a day hike. Janice in the Sierra

How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Complete Idiot [For the ...

1 review
John Muir, Tosh Gregg

John Muir Publications, 1979

Extremely Useful, Highly Recommended if You Own a Classic VW
My dad bought this book for me when I owned my bug and I found it incredibly useful for learning about my car's inner workings. I saved money by doing minor repairs and maintenance myself.. with the help of this book, my bug was very accessible. The book is written in a clear manner that I think most people could understand. I highly recommend this title if you own a classic VW and would like ...

John Muir in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

2 reviews
John Muir; Peter Browning

Great West Books, 1988

Still Useful, even with google and John Muir Exhibit
I am frequently asked for the source of particular Muir quotations. Answering these requests is difficult, because many of Muir's best passages were written in different locations. Muir frequently wrote for newspapers and magazines, and then later edited his writings for book publication. So, there are sometimes two or three slightly different versions of the same Muir quote! In addition, some of ...

Sierra Birds: A Hiker's Guide

7 reviews
John Muir Laws

Heyday Books, 2004

A lively, refreshing guide to Birds
I use this guide outside of the Sierra as well to confirm the bird species I have seen. The images are wonderful! The birds have texture and life - they are anything but flat, 2D images! The helpful clues for IDing birds are really effective, and the bird by color instead of genus or class makes it much easier for the novice or casual birdwatching hiker to have the thrill of Bird IDing & ...

The Mountains of California

5 reviews
John Muir

Sierra Club Books, 1989

Muir, from Shasta to San Diego, but mostly in the Sierras.
Some say this is Muir's finest work. As the only other Muir book I've read (at this writing) is Travels in Alaska, I cannot comment on this, other than to say that I enjoyed this book a great deal. From almost any vantage point in California, whether near or on a distant horizon, there are mountains. A fact not lost on Muir, whose sense of wonder and love of life endear him to his readers. ...

John Muir : Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth; My First Summer in the Sierra; The Mountains ...

8 reviews
John Muir

Library of America, 1997

Muir should be required reading, period.
I've only read "My First Summer in the Sierra," and attest to Muir's enchanting style and lucidity. He writes as an enthusiast, but gives his stories a plain-spoken clarity that can be enjoyed by all. Muir must have been quite an individual - after working as a shepherd for a few months, he talks of getting time off from his employer, "tying some bread to his belt, and walking to Mammoth" from ...

Travels in Alaska
Muir John

Book Jungle, 2008

...Forty years ago John Muir wrote to a friend; "I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. . . . Civilization and fever, and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me, have not dimmed my glacial eyes, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness." How gloriously he fulfilled the promise of his early manhood! Fame, all unbidden, wore a path to his door, but he always remained a modest, unspoiled mountaineer. ...

The Wilderness World of John Muir

4 reviews
John Muir

Mariner Books, 2001

Very Best Starting Point to Learn About John Muir
I am often asked for a recommendation of what among Muir's writings, or writings about him, one should first read. After spending more than 30 years appreciating both his writings and most of the books about Muir that have been published during that time, and after ten years editing the John Muir Exhibit online, I can only turn to the same book that originally enthalled me with John Muir: The ...

My First Summer in Sierra
John Muir

Digireads.com, 2008

Following the American Civil War in the summer of 1869, John Muir signed on with a crew of shepherds to drive a flock of 2500 sheep to Yosemite National Park at the headwaters of the Merced river. It wasn't until 1911, however, that he published "My First Summer in Sierra", an account of that experience which would inspire many to visit the Yosemite region and has become a classic of environmentalist literature.

My First Summer in the Sierra

15 reviews
John Muir

Sierra Club Books, 1989

Discovering the Range of Light
John Muir was born in 1838 and at a young age emigrated from Scotland with his family to a Wisconsin farm. He escaped the hard labor of the farm and his father's backward Biblical obsessions by displaying great powers of visualization. From principles learned from books, he whittled and fashioned barometers, thermometers, clocks and other marvels from the barest of materials. But he repudiated ...

The Yosemite

2 reviews

B&R Samizdat Express, 2008

Wonderful!
A great book and a wonderful gift for anyone who loves Yosemite. Rowell's photographs are wonderful, and are set to John Muir's observations and memories of the Valley.

Story of My Boyhood and Youth By John Muir 1913
John Muir

Houghton Mifflin Boston and New York, 1913

Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1913. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing with "Published March 1913" on copyright page and 1913 date on title page. Green cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Frontispiece photograph of Muir with protective tissue intact. Nine full page photographic illustrations. Light wear to cloth at corners of spine. Corners are a little doggeared. Nice copy.

Travels in Alaska

8 reviews

B&R Samizdat Express, 2008

Muir and Alaska
The beauty of this wonderful reprinting is how it shows John Muir as a person, how it helps us to understand the dynamic and overwhelming beauty of Alaska, and the changes in the people of Alaska. Muir's complete, tireless, and joyful commitment to nature comes through on every page. The book unintentionally provides an excellent portrait of the kind of inexhaustible devotion it takes to change ...

My First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir

Barnes & Noble, 2006

This vivid travelogue conveys John Muir's life-changing adventure in the Sierra Nevada. Penniless but itching to travel, Muir took a job relocating Pat Delaney's sheep from California's Central Valley to the Yosemite region. When he set out in the summer of 1869, Muir, whose closest previous experience was walking a thousand miles from Indiana to Florida, wasn't sure that "the silly sheep" would make it through the wilds of the mountains. He was ...

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