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 -- natur

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.

"I am now writing up some notes, but when they will be ready for publication I do not know... It will be a long time before anything is arranged in book form."

The Wisdom of John Muir marries the best aspects of a Muir anthology with the best aspects of a Muir biography. The fact that it is neither, and yet it is both,

An exuberant graphic bio of the life of John Muir. John Muir led an adventurous life, starting with his wild and playful boyhood in Scotland to his legendary ex