John Muir  
Our National Parks

Our National Parks (The John Muir Library)
by John Muir

This collection of essays celebrates those park lands of the American West that John Muir knew and loved.  Muir captures the vital essence of Yosemite, Yellowstone, Sequoia, and other areas, detailing their natural attractions -- the breathtaking forests, lush alpine meadows, massive granite domes, towering sequoias, bursting geysers, thundering waterfalls, and crystalline glacial lakes.

Our National Parks is also a brilliant defense of American forests and a sharp critique of the corrupt forestry practices of Muir's time.  His spirited writing clarified the debate on the preservation of wilderness and helped bring the national park service into existence.  Essential reading for anyone who wants to protect America's wild lands, Our national Parks is Muir at his rhapsodic and polemical best.

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Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Preface

1.The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West
2.The Yellowstone National Park
3.The Yosemite National Park
4.The Forests of the Yosemite Park
5.The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park
6.Among the Animals of the Yosemite
7.Among the Birds of the Yosemite
8.The Fountains and Streams of the Yosemite National Park
9.The Sequoia and General Grant National Parks
10.The American Forests

Appendix
Index

Included also is a list of illustrations.