Our National Parks.

MUIR, John.

Item Number: 126043

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909.

First new and enlarged edition of Muir’s collection of short works on the beauty and splendor of America’s National Parks. Octavo, original illustrated cloth decorated in gilt, frontispiece engraving of the sequoias of Mariposa Grove, illustrated, map. In good condition, dampstaining.

"Describes chiefly the Yellowstone and the Yosemite. John Muir has been for many years California's best-known nature-writer" (Cowan, 159). In 1889 John Muir and Robert Underwood Johnson advocated for the creation of what is now Yosemite National Park, and a camping trip with Muir in 1903 initiated Teddy Roosevelt's unprecedented conservation campaign. Muir, founder of the Sierra Club and discoverer of Glacier Bay and Muir Glacier, was "of such transcendent importance as an activist-conservationist that his worth as a naturalist is sometimes underestimated and his considerable skill as a writer obscured. His prose is as timeless as his message" (ANB).