Our National Parks

Our National Parks by John Muir

John Muir’s Our National Parks—reissued to encourage, and inspire travelers, campers, and contemporary naturalists—is as profound for readers today as it was in 1901.

Take in John Muir’s detailed observations of the sights, scents, sounds, and textures of Yosemite, Yellowstone, and forest reservations of the West. Be reminded (as Muir sagely puts it), “Wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers but as fountains of life.”

John Muir’s warmth, humor, and passionate advocacy for these public lands are enough to spur any reader to plan their own National Parks adventure.

John Muir was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, early advocate of preserving wilderness in the United States, and founder of The Sierra Club. His letters, essays, and books of his adventures in nature have been read by millions.

Hardback.
248 pages.