John Muir My First Summer in the Sierra and Selected Essays Introduced by Bill McKibben ISBN: 978-1-59853-111-4 400 pp. / $14.95 Printed on high-quality acid-free paper SAVE 20% and get FREE Shipping anywhere in the U.S. when you order from the LOA Web Store! Web Store Price: $11.96

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In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir made himself America’s most eloquent spokesperson for the mystery and majesty of wilderness, a master of natural description who evoked and celebrated the untrammeled landscapes of the American West. My First Summer in the Sierra, Muir’s seminal account of his first extended trip to the Sierra Nevada in what is now Yosemite National Park, is joined here by thirteen essays further detailing the wonder and fragility of California’s natural environment and his path-breaking efforts to preserve it. In the introduction for this edition, Bill McKibben writes, “When we consider John Muir, we consider one of the small handful of Americans who truly changed the world.”

Bill McKibben is the author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, The End of Nature, Deep Economy, The Bill McKibben Reader, and numerous other books. He edited American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau for The Library of America. He is the founder of the environmental organizations Step It Up and 350.org and a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont.

Contents

My First Summer in the Sierra
Selected Essays

• Yosemite Glaciers
• Yosemite Valley in Flood
• A Geologist’s Winter Walk
• Flood-Storm in the Sierra
• Living Glaciers of California
• God’s First Temples: How Shall We Preserve Our Forests?
• Snow-Storm on Mount Shasta
• Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park
• The American Forest
• The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West
• The Forests of Yosemite Park
• Hetchy Hetchy Valley
• Save the Redwoods