"I am now writing up some notes, but when they will be ready for publication I do not know... It will be a long time before anything is arranged in book form."

Excerpts from Muir's thousand-mile walk to the Gulf.

John Muir, America's pioneer conservationist and father of the national park system, was a man of considerable literary talent. As he explored the wilderness of

Caldecott medalist Mordicai Gerstein captures the majestic redwoods of Yosemite in this little-known but important story from our nation's history. In 1903, Pre

Donald Worster's A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written. It is the first to