Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Muir’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the books
* All the nature books, with individual contents tables
* Features rare works appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork
* Features Muir’s Overland articles
* Includes Muir’s autobiographies – spend hours following the author’s adventures
* Special ‘Contextual Pieces’ section, with contemporary articles, reviews and essays evaluating Muir’s works
* Features the seminal biography by William Frederic Badè
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
CONTENTS:
The Books
PICTURESQUE CALIFORNIA
THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA
STICKEEN: AN ADVENTURE WITH A DOG AND A GLACIER
OUR NATIONAL PARKS
EDWARD HENRY HARRIMAN
THE YOSEMITE
TRAVELS IN ALASKA
LETTERS TO A FRIEND
A THOUSAND-MILE WALK TO THE GULF
THE CRUISE OF THE CORWIN
STEEP TRAILS
Newspaper Articles
OVERLAND MONTHLY ARTICLES
The Autobiographies
MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA
THE STORY OF MY BOYHOOD AND YOUTH
Contextual Pieces
JOHN MUIR: CONTEXTUAL ARTICLES, ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
ZANITA: A TALE OF THE YO-SEMITE by Thérèse Yelverton
THE MOUNTAIN TRAIL AND ITS MESSAGE by Albert W. Palmer
ALASKA DAYS WITH JOHN MUIR by S. Hall Young
The Biography
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN MUIR by William Frederic Badè
