BOOKS by John Muir

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1	How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step by Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot more books like this by John Muir add to wishlist First published in 1969, this classic manual of automotive repair equips VW owners with the knowledge to handle every situation they will come across with any air-cooled Volkswagen built through 1978, including Bugs, Karmann Ghis, vans, and campers. With easy-to-understand, fun-to-read information- for novice and veteran mechanics alike-anecdotal ... see all copies from $5.74! new only from $15.45! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The wilderness world of John Muir. more books like this by John Muir add to wishlist During John Muir's extraordinary life as a conservationist, he traveled through most of the American wilderness alone and on foot, without a gun or a sleeping bag. In 1903, while on a three-day camping trip with President Theodore Roosevelt, he convinced the president of the importance of a national conservation program, and he is given major ... see all copies from $6.60! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	My First Summer in the Sierra more books like this by John Muir add to wishlist This classic of nature writing chronicles John Muir's first contact with the Sierra Nevada, in June 1869. Hired as a shepherd, Muir became fascinated by the terrain of foliage, wildlife, rivers, and streams. Forty years later, he made his notes into this book about the place he loved most. Illustrated with Muir's drawings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Travels in Alaska more books like this by John Muir add to wishlist John Muir's record of his 1879 voyage through the fjords of Alaska, whose scenery he called "hopelessly beyond description." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.47! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The mountains of California more books like this by John Muir add to wishlist Muir's 1894 classic, a record of his years in the Sierras, is illustrated with his own engravings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Yosemite more books like this by John Muir add to wishlist John Muir portrays the valley he called his "marvelous wonderland" in this nature-writing classic, providing detailed descriptions of its flora, fauna and natural features. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The John Muir Library more books like this by John Muir, Michael McCurdy (Illustrator), Colin Fletcher (Foreword by) add to wishlist Muir vividly recounts his formative years, detailing the "fun and pain" of his boyhood in Scotland, his awakening love for nature, his immigration to America, and the hardships of life on his family's farm in Wisconsin. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.14! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada more books like this by John Muir Laws (Illustrator) add to wishlist A comprehensive, breathtaking guide for users to identify commonly encountered organisms in the Sierra foothills and mountains, fully illustrated and field tested by Academy of Sciences nature illustration teacher Jack Laws. see all copies from $12.04! new only from $12.04! \| SVS
9	Our National Parks more books like this by John Muir add to wishlist This addition to the "John Muir Library Series" is a collection of ten essays in which Muir extols the beauty, grandeur, and importance of Yosemite, Sequoia, Yellowstone, and other National Parks of the American West and urges the preservation of these natural areas. First published in 1901, this book brought Muir to the attention of President ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $10.50! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Stickeen more books like this by John Muir add to wishlist 1909. Scottish-born American naturalist and writer who devoted much of his life to saving the natural beauties of the West from destruction by commercial exploitation. Stickeen begins: In the summer of 1880 I set out from Fort Wrangel in a canoe to continue the exploration of the icy region of southeastern Alaska, begun in the fall of 1879. After ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures more books like this by Lee Stetson, John Muir, Fiona King (Illustrator) add to wishlist Here is an entertaining collection of John Muir's most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing. Each included adventure has been selected to show the extent to which Muir courted and faced danger, i.e. lived "wildly, " throughout his life. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosemite Valley to his night spent riding ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Muir: Nature Writings more books like this by John Muir, William Cronon (Editor) add to wishlist In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir made himself America's most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness. A crucial figure in the creation of our national parks system and a visionary prophet of environmental awareness, he was also a master of natural description who evoked ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $24.88!
13 view cover	A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf more books like this by John Muir add to wishlist /MUIR JOHN Originally published in 1916, this book is largely comprised of lightly edited diary entries Muir made during his memorable 1867 trek from Kentucky to Florida. Mixing deft observations of the human condition with lyrical responses to the beauties of the natural world, Muir creates his own stirring "song of the see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	John Muir: The Eight Wilderness Discovery Books more books like this by John Muir add to wishlist The Story of My Boyhood and Youth; A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf; My First Summer in the Sierra; The Mountains of California; Our National Parks; and more. see all copies from $23.85! new only from $27.59! \| SVS
15 view cover	Wilderness World of John Muir Pa more books like this by Edwin Way Teale, John Muir add to wishlist Muir's writing, based on journals he kept throughout his life, gives our generation a picture of America only 100 years ago, still wild and unsettled. Edwin Way Teale has preserved the best of Muir's work in selections that show both the age and the man. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Handbook of Veterinary Anesthesia more books like this by William Muir add to wishlist "Handbook of Veterinary Anesthesia, 4th Edition" is a convenient, complete, and practical resource for administering safe and effective anesthesia to small and large animals, including exotic pets. Long valued by students and practitioners alike, this handbook features all the practical and applied aspects of veterinary anesthesia, including ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $42.00! \| SVS
17 view cover	America's Wilderness: The Photographs of Ansel Adams with the Writings of John Muir more books like this by Ansel Adams (Photographer), John Muir add to wishlist Contains more than 100 of the 225 photographs commissioned from Ansel Adams for the Mural Project. see all copies from $12.88! new only from $16.45! \| first editions
18 view cover	Nature writings : the story of my boyhood and youth, my first summer in the Sierra, the mountains of California, Stickeen, selected essays more books like this by John Muir add to wishlist In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir made himself America's most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness. A crucial figure in the creation of our national parks system and a visionary prophet of environmental awareness, he was also a master of natural description who evoked ... see all copies from $17.50! new only from $17.50! \| first editions
19 view cover	Mountaineering Essays more books like this by John Muir, Richard F Fleck (Editor) add to wishlist This volume contains eleven mountain essays that include both adventurous narrative, joyful exultation, and descriptive features such as alpine soil beds, ancient and living glaciers, and mountain sculpture. In each, Muir maintains a careful and subtle balance between the physical aspects of ascending and the more symbolic observations of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| first editions
20 view cover	Sacred Summits more books like this by John Muir add to wishlist Concentrating on his achievements in the mountaineering field, this volume displays the author's feel for the inner self through his exploits. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.45! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	John Muir: My Life with Nature more books like this by Joseph Bharat Cornell, John Muir, Elizabeth Ann Kelley (Illustrator) add to wishlist A biography of the man known as "father of America's national parks" and an influential conservationist, told in the first person, using Muir's own words. see all copies from $3.85! new only from $5.19! \| first editions
22 view cover	Letters from Alaska more books like this by John Muir, Bruce Merrell (Editor), Robert E Engberg (Contributions by) add to wishlist John Muir (1838-1914), founder of the Sierra Club, was one of the most famous and influential environmental conservationists of all time. From 1879 to 1880 Muir traveled the waters of southeastern Alaska in a Tlingit Indian dugout canoe and reported his encounters in a series of letters published in the "San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin". ... see all copies from $3.06! new only from $11.36! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Wilderness essays more books like this by John Muir add to wishlist John Muir was one of our first and finest writers on the wilderness of the American West. Part of Muir's attractiveness to modern readers is the fact that he was an activist. He not only explored the West and wrote about its beauties-- he fought for their preservation. His successes dot the landscape in all the natural features that bear his name: ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $89.38! \| SVS
24 view cover	John Muir in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations more books like this by John Muir, Peter Browning (Compiled by) add to wishlist The best of John Muir -- 332 quotations, the distillation of his thought, the essence of his beliefs. Muir was the foremost conservationist of his time -- nature writer, social critic, realist, a romantic, a visionary. "A long-needed collection that features an excellent subject index. Painstaking bibliographic references make this an invaluable ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $7.52! \| SVS
25	Gentle Wilderness: The Sierra Nevada more books like this by John Muir, Richard Kauffman (Photographer), David Ross Brower (Foreword by) add to wishlist Nearly a century after John Muir's personal account of the Sierra Nevada, Richard Kauffman has come along with a color camera to recapture the feeling of discovery and the vividness in what Muir called the Range of Light. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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