The wilderness world of John Muir / with an introduction and interpretive comments by Edwin Way Teale ; illustrated by Henry B. Kane. [print]

Selections from Muir's writings.

Originally published 1954.

I. Memories of Youth Boyhood in Scotland 3 New World 27 A Paradise of Birds 35 Well 48 Knowledge and Inventions 51 World and the University 60 -- II. University of the Wilderness Start of the 1000-Mile Walk 75 People by the Way 77 A Tennessee Memory 86 Camping Among the Tombs 87 Cuban Shore 95 New York 96 -- III. Range of Light First Glimpse of the Sierra 99 Bee Pastures 102 Start for the High Sierra 106 Billy the Shepherd 110 Amorous Dog 111 Mossy Boulder 113 Leaf Shadows 115 Indian 116 Bread Famine 119 On the Brink of Yosemite Falls 124 Bear, the Fly and the Grasshopper 129 Professor Butler 134 -- IV. Valley Grandeur of Yosemite Falls 143 Illilouette Falls 145 Water Ouzel 147 Emerson at Yosemite 162 Earthquake 166 Snow-Banners 170 Tracks in the Sand 175 -- V. Forests of the West Wind-Storm in the Forest 181 Dwarf Pine 191 Song of the Silver Pine 193 Douglas Squirrel 195 Sequoia 207 Nevada Nut Pines 226 Any Fool Can Destroy a Tree 231 -- Virgin Islands Glacier Pioneer Discovery of the Sierra Glaciers 235 Shadow Lake 241 A Fall in the Mountains 244 Mount Ritter 246 A Perilous Night on Mount Shasta 251 Discovery of Glacier Bay 266 Glaciers by Starlight 272 Fire in the Rain 274 Stickeen 277 Villages of the Dead 297 Slaughter of the Walruses 301 Alaskan Auroras 303 -- Virgin IslandsI. Philosophy of John Muir 311.

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