Our National Parks (Legacy Edition): Historic Explorations Of Priceless American

<p><strong>John Muir's Journal of Explorations of America's Greatest Natural Treasures </strong></p><p>This deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of John Muir's 1901 <em>Our National Parks</em> is a celebration of American outdoors heritage and the legacy that the American national parks system seeks to preserve. In this journal, Muir's characteristic language paints a portrait for the reader of the great parks at the turn of the 20th Century, illustrating the vast natural beauty of, inescapable charm of, and intense need for protecting the national parks that had been newly founded in the early 1900s. Take a walk with Muir as he explores Yosemite, the Sierras, the land of the large Sequoias, the ancient homes of native peoples, and the forests of America. </p><p>In this volume, Muir discusses much of what he saw during his travels to the now-protected national parks as he wandered the trails and made his way across America. He vividly plants images in readers' minds of the grandeur of the peaks at Yosemite, the scale of the immense mountain ranges in California, the insurmountable height of the great Sequoia trees, and the sheer life in the forests and meadows of America's wildernesses. Reflect on the words of Muir's keen eye for nature and the lore of the woods while you plan your own escape to the wilderness. Muir's admiration of the diversity of his surroundings and appreciation of every living creature big and small is clearly seen in every page </p><p>This book ma