Steep Trails

By Muir, John

Book Id: WPLBN0002954275
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File Size: 266.89 MB
Reproduction Date: 2010

Title:	Steep Trails
Author:	Muir, John
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Biography, Essay/Short nonfiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Steep Trails
Historic Publication Date:	1918
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Muir, B. J. (1918). Steep Trails. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
A collection of Muir's previously unpublished essays, released shortly after his death. This volume will meet, in every way, the high expectations of Muir's readers. The recital of his experiences during a stormy night on the summit of Mount Shasta will take rank among the most thrilling of his records of adventure. His observations on the dead towns of Nevada, and on the Indians gathering their harvest of pine nuts, recall a phase of Western life that has left few traces in American literature. ... The landscapes that Muir saw ... will live in good part only in his writings, for fire, axe, plough, and gunpowder have made away with the supposedly boundless forest wildernesses and their teeming life. (From the Editor's note to the 1918 first edition)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Biography, Essay/Short nonfiction, Memoirs, Nature