Steep Trails - Softcover

Muir, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871565358 ISBN 13: 9780871565358

Publisher: Sierra Club Books, 1994

Synopsis

Spanning nearly three decades of John Muir’s work and showing the great conservationist author at his best, this collection of two dozen magazine articles and letters focuses on his travels to the lakes, canyons, and mountains of the American West, including the Great Salt Lake, the San Gabriel Mountains, Mount Rainer, and the Grand Canyon

About this title

About the Author

John Muir (1838-1914), founder of the Sierra Club, is widely regarded as the father of the twentieth-century conservation movement. Edward Hoagland is the author of numerous works of fiction as well as nature and travel literature, including African Calliope, Walking the Dead Diamond River, and Heart's Desire. He lives in Vermont.

From the Back Cover

"Muir's writing has survived for a century because he was not afraid to wear his heart on his sleeve. He didn't hunt or fish in the wilderness, sell trees or snag nuggets, and thus in a sense he has only been freshened for us by the passage of time." -- Edward Hoagland, from his Foreword

"To read this book is like going on a joyous holiday through the most picturesque parts of America." -- The New York Times, December, 1918

From the Inside Flap

ublished in 1918, this brilliant collection of letters and magazine articles spans nearly thirty years of Muir's writing and is one of the lesser known gems of the Muir canon. Gathered shortly after Muir's death by family friend William Frederic Bade, these passages are learned, funny, exalted, and quirky in one amazing turn after another. Here is Muir caught in a snowstorm below the peak of Mount Shasta; interviewing the one remaining miner in a Nevada ghost town; bathing "clean as a saint" in the Great Salt Lake, and sparring with Mormon elders; exploring the forests of Puget Sound, and climbing Mount Rainier; peering into the Grand Canyon, "a collection of stone books covering thousands of miles of shelving, tier on tier." Steep Trails is Muir at his wondering, joyful, ebullient best.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sierra Club Books
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871565358
• ISBN 13: 9780871565358
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300