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The Mountains of California is Muir’s tribute to the beauties of the Sierra. When he came to California and finally settled in San Francisco, John Muir immediately left for a visit to Yosemite, a pla …

My First Summer in the Sierra describes two years period of Muir’s life during which he lived in a cabin in Californian mountains. When he came to California and finally settled in San Francisco, Joh …

John Muir made four trips to Alaska, as far as Unalaska and Barrow. Muir, Mr. Young and a group of Native American Guides first traveled to Alaska in 1879 and were the first Euro-Americans to explore …

In 1903 Muir took one of the most significant camping trips with, then president, Theodore Roosevelt. This trip persuaded Roosevelt to return ‘Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove to federal protection …

In this volume Mr. Howells has collected three short pieces which show his power under various aspects. The pleasantest and in a literary sense the best of the three is the charming paper on ‘Lexingt …

‘JOHN MUIR, Earth-planet, Universe.’—These words are written on the inside cover of the notebook from which the contents of this volume have been taken. They reflect the mood in which the late author …

The brothers Hezekiah Jones and Washington Bryan Crumpton were born and raised in Lowndes County, Alabama. This book describes their childhood and travels. The book is divided into three sections as …

When John Muir moved to San Francisco, he immediately left for a week-long visit to Yosemite, a place he had only read about. Seeing it for the first time, Muir noted that ‘He was overwhelmed by the …

In 1849, Thoreau published his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The actual voyage was performed by the two brothers Henry and John in the late summer of 1839 in a boat of their …

Since the voyage of Columbus in search of the New World, and of Raleigh in quest of El Dorado, no visit to America has excited so much interest and conjecture as that of the author of ‘Oliver Twist.’ …