Wilderness Essays

John Muir is a legend in the American conservation movement, arguably the nation's foremost naturalist for his diligent work in preservation of place that eventually became national parks and monuments. In these essays and articles, the reader will marvel at Muir's knowledge of flora and fauna in the 19th century. His writing is descriptive as he paints word pictures of America more than 100 years ago.

What can I say? It's a collection of works from the late, great John Muir. The man is legendary. His writing may come across as a little dry to modern readers, but then most works written in that time period tend to be. It is mainly his observations of the natural world around him. It is very good and for those interested in Muir this is a nice collection of his essays and the book cover is quite lovely in person.My main complaint is that I do wish he wrote more about the details of his day to day life. What he ate, what shelter, if any, he lived in? He doesn't talk much about that kind of stuff. Mainly just describing what he sees, which can get a little boring after a while to be honest.

I really didn’t know what to expect when picking this up, I just thought it would be interesting to read more from the legend John Muir. This is not an adventure novel, or even really that exciting of a read. But, it is a great journal of the beauty of nature and written by someone who really knows how to write about what he sees. Even just reading 2 of the essays so far, it gets me excited to get outside and experience more of what he saw that caused him to sit and write about it!

This is a must read for adventurers. He was a pioneer in the game and writes a lot of very descriptive essays about the wilderness and how it was prior to people steadily destroying it.

Lots of fun to read early impressions of some of America's most beautiful visages. I found I ended up breaking the book into two major sections and reading something else in between. The essays can have a slightly redundant feel, so breaking it up made it better for me. The writing is excellent and the words really express the emotions one feels out in the wilderness. Certainly worth the time!

Purchased this for a remote camping trip — it made our trip memorable. These stories are timeless, adventurous, and beautiful. Highly recommend.

Wonderfully written, really felt like you were along in his journey. Was a larger book and had larger print then usual. But overall very happy with the purchase!

John Muir you really have a way of transporting me to the wilderness you adventure to. I only wish I could be as rugged and dare to go on one of these excursions myself. Alas I am nothing more than a citizen of suburbia and have never actually been camping, not even once. All is well though for I have the words of the great John Muir to reveal the feeling of scaling the Sierras. The man does what he wants. Read this book.

A good collection of stories from one of the great nature writers, travels in Alaska, Yosemite The Mountains of California and many more, John Muir is a person at one with nature and his love of the wilderness shines through these stories.

I enjoy reading John Muir's Boos, great poetic descriptions of wilderness hikes, they get the imagination flowing.

Marvelous.

Classic nature writing, a "must read" for every nature lover.

Excellent book, obviously. It has a plush hardcover, with a matte finish, which feels great in the hand. Great feel.