Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth; My First Summer in the Sierra; The Mountains of California; Stickeen; Selected Essays (The Library of America Series Book 92)

888 pp. Original green cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of four full-length works and eighteen essays, with chronology, notes, and index. One of America's most renowned naturalists and ecologists, Muir founded the Sierra Club, and helped popularize the hobbies of hiking and exploring nature. Includes: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth; My First Summer in the Sierra; The Mountains of California; Stickeen; Yosemite Glaciers; Yosemite Valley in Flood; A Geologist's Winter Walk; Wild Wool; Flood-Storm in the Sierra; Living Glaciers of California; God's First Temples: How Shall We Preserve Our Forests?; Snow-Storm on Mount Shasta; Alaska; Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park; The American Forests; The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West; The Yellowstone National Park; The Forests of the Yosemite Park; The Grand Canon [Canyon] of the Colorado; Hetch Hetchy Valley; Cedar Keys; Save the Redwoods. This edition is part of the Library of America series, published by a non-profit organization whose goal is to keep classic works of American literature and history in print as a way of preserving cultural heritage.