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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
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John Muir Trail: The Essential Guide to Hiking America's Most Famous Trail (John Muir Trail) 4 reviews
Elizabeth Wenk, Kathy Morey
Wilderness Press, 2007
This is it!
This is the new edition of the Morey/Winnett (sp?) book but it's much, much more than that. I've hiked the JMT a couple of times and done a fair amount of hiking in the Sierras. Basically tho I'm a city boy and can't tell one tree from another and know nothing about geology. This book will - I haven't had the chance to hike with it yet - fill in the ignorance and satisfy the curiosity about ...
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The Wild Muir: Twenty-two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures10 reviews
Heyday Books/Yosemite Association, 2008
Twenty-two of Muir's best scootcher's!
Lee Stetson, an actor who regularly has played Muir in Yosemite, compiled these 22 tales in this very readable, short book which I obtained in Tuolumne meadows visitor center in Yosemite National Forest. The Wild Muir has been on my Amazon wish list for a long time, so glad I bought my copy in the heart of Muir Territory, where one cannot escape some mention of his name in the many trails and ...
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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
The Finest Natural History
John Muir was one of the founders of the early 20th century conservation movement and godfather to today's environmentalism. This collection of three books and shorter works demonstrates the reason. Muir's description of the natural world is at times scientific, at others spiritual. Here nature is not some remote thing but the living manifestation of God's love. This is not a religious book as ...
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Meditations of John Muir: Nature's Temple3 reviews
Wilderness Press, 2001
sauntering companion
A must!!! Take this wonderful collection of muirs wisdom with you whether you are walking among trees, meadows, deserts, or just thinking about a saunter. Chris Highland's compilation of varied writings from John Muir are wonderfully editited, capturing muirs wit, humor and peace of mind. I love this book!!
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir21 reviews
R. A. Dick
Buccaneer Books, 1993
Saw the movie, had to read the book
I loved the movie with Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney. After seeing it I knew I wanted to read the book. The book is an easy read and very enjoyable. It answered some questions that the movie didn't. I can't say I like the movie better than the book or visa versa. But the movie and the book together are fabulous.
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A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
Donald Worster
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing." In Donald Worster's magisterial biography, John Muir's "special self" is fully explored as is his extraordinary ability, then and now, to get others to see the sacred ...
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The Wilderness World of John Muir3 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 ...
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My First Summer In The Sierra (1917) 15 reviews
John Muir
Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008
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 ...
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John Muir: Nature's Visionary3 reviews
Gretel Ehrlich
National Geographic, 2000
Magnificent man, fine book
John Muir is one of the greatest and least appreciated men of the paste 150 years. His fierce determination to preserve the wilderness was a gift to us all. This book does him justice in all ways. Not only is it beautifully written and crafted, the author's empathy and understanding of Muir is evident throughout. Naturally there is an emphasis on Muir's tremendous conservationist efforts, but I ...
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John Muir: America's Naturalist1 review
Thomas Locker
Fulcrum Publishing, 2003
A true work of art
John Muir: America's Naturalist is a picture book created and illustrated by Thomas Locker for the express purpose of biographically informing young readers naturalist John Muir's wisdom and values with respect to wilderness preservation. Beautiful full-color reproductions of Locker's richly painted landscapes perfectly complement the life and achievements of John Muir who wrote articulate and ...
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Scottish Journey2 reviews
Edwin Muir
Mainstream Publishing, 1996
One of the most thoughtful travel books ever written
Muir combines vivid descriptions of people and scenes with passionate discussions of socialism, unemployment, and the spiritual poverty of the Scottish people in the 30's. Truly a political poet's book
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John Muir Trail Map-Pack: Shaded Relief Topo Maps8 reviews
Tom Harrison
Tom Harrison Maps, 2005
T.Harrison rules!
I've used the same set of Harrison's JMT maps a couple of times now, the first hike took 30 days and second took 18. They're durable, for sure. The scale (1:63,360) is appropriate for the set of 13 8.5"x11" maps - if you really, really hustle you can hike a map per day. The size means you don't have to unfold a huge sheet of paper each time you want to check where you are. The mileage between ...
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John Muir: The Eight Wilderness Discovery Books1 review
John Muir
Diadem Books, 1992
Want a detailed description of a snow-banner? the nut-pine?
Or numerous other natural phenomena? Come browse Muir's collection of books. Yes, browse the 1,030 pages which comprise his writings. This book is excellent for the student of nature because his descriptive writing takes you to the high Sierra, the redwood forests, the 1,000 mile trek through Florida to the Gulf of Mexico. You are there and you want to be THERE! While much of the ...
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Wilderness Essays (Peregrine Smith Literary Naturalists)1 review
John Muir
Peregrine Smith Books, 1989
Feels like you're there.
John Muir is simply the best naturalist writer I have ever read. His writing is clear, descriptive and interesting. I typically don't like this type of writing, but his essays make you hear, see, taste and smell the outdoors. I usually like to experience nature directly, but Muir is the next best thing to being there. A collection of his best works is presented here.
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John Muir: Rediscovering America4 reviews
Frederick Turner
Da Capo Press, 2000
Mind-opening and fascinating
I finished this book about a week ago. Despite moving on to subsequent reading material, I find that there are parts of Turner's book that I simply can't stop thinking on. For me, they are what makes John Muir's life and legacy so important. There is about a three or four page segment at the end of the chapter entitled "Civilization and Its Discontents," in which Turner presents what appears ...
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John Muir: America's First Environmentalist2 reviews
Kathryn Lasky
Candlewick, 2008
Students in grades 3-5 are provided with a review of his childhood dreams and early love of nature
It's a pleasure to see Kathryn Lasky's biography, John Muir: America's First Environmentalist appear for a younger audience than biographies of Muir usually writes for: Stan Fellows provides gorgeous watercolors to accompany a book which uses John Muir's own diaries as a foundation for an exploration of his life and thoughts. Students in grades 3-5 are provided with a review of his childhood ...
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Rediscovering America: John Muir in His Time and Ours
Sierra Club
Random House, Inc., 1987
A splendidly written and authoritative biography of one of America's greatest naturalists and the founder of the Sierra Club, illuminating Muir's colorful character and his unique environmental vision. First time in paperback. 16 black-and-white photographs.
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Essential Muir: A Selection of John Muir's Best Writings (California Legacy Book)
John Muir, Fred D. White
Heyday Books, 2006
Preservationist. Inventor. Lobbyist. John Muir was many things at once, and he is California?s best-known icon?so much so that his image was chosen to appear on the new state quarter. But the best way to know the man who founded the Sierra Club and helped create Yosemite National Park is to read his own words. Essential Muir is the second volume in the California Legacy Essentials Collection. Taking the best of John Muir's writings on ...
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Tantra: The Art of Conscious Loving24 reviews
Charles Muir, Caroline Muir
Mercury House, 1990
One of the best about Tantra for modern people
Please read this book! It is a philosophical and practical adaptation of ancient Tantric teachings to the modern Western realities. Learning and practicing "original" 4000-years old Tantra now isn't quite realistic. If you read some reviews written by "pure Tantra extremists," they sound rather fanatic than intelligent. This book is for "normal" people of today who want to make their intimate ...
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