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Our National Parks is a guidebook supreme, an exciting introduction to Yosemite and several other magnificent parks by the man who, more than any other person, helped create them. After this fast-paced trip with Muir, past visitors to the parks will want to revisit them with new insights, and those who have never wandered these trails will not rest until they have done so.
The book was originally published in 1901, its ten essays having previously appeared as articles in the Atlantic Monthly. Muir wrote them with a single purpose—to entice people, by his descriptions, to come to the parks, to see and enjoy them. If enough people did so, reasoned Muir, they would surely love the wilderness as he did, and the parks would be preserved.
Muir carried out his public relations mission with remarkable success. Every page of this book carries his unbridled and irresistible enthusiasm. Our National Parks is part reminiscence, part philosophy, and mostly enticing description. It is all vintage Muir.
Although the book treats Yellowstone, Sequoia, General Grant, and other national parks of the Western U.S., Muir devotes the bulk of the work to his first love—Yosemite, settled into the heart of the Sierra Nevada. The concluding essay is an impassioned plea to save American forests.
All visitors to the great western national parks—and all who will one day visit them—will be captivated by Muir's descriptions. The grandeur of this wilderness is reflected in the very spirit of John Muir. Both shine through every page of this remarkable book. Richard F. Fleck's introduction and Todd Johnson's foreword for the 125th anniversary edition place Muir's life and legacy in the environmental movement of the United States in context and reveal how our need for nature and our responsibility to public lands remain as important as ever.
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Foreword by Todd Johnson xi
Introduction by Richard F. Fleck xxv
A Note on the Text xxxiii
Preface xxxv
1 The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations
of the West 1
2 The Yellowstone National Park 37
3 The Yosemite National Park 76
4 The Forests of the Yosemite Park 98
5 The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park 137
6 Among the Animals of the Yosemite 172
7 Among the Birds of the Yosemite 213
8 The Fountains and Streams of the Yosemite
National Park 241
9 The Sequoia and General Grant National Parks 268
10 The American Forests 331
Index 367
