Book Reviews

See also

Alaska Days with John Muir, by S. Hall Young

Baptized into Wilderness: A Christian Perspective on John Muir by Richard Cartwright Austin

Earth Wisdom: John Muir, Accidental Taoist, Charts Humanity's Only Future on a Changing Planet by Ramond Barnett

John Muir by Rod Miller

Reviewed by Martin Naparsteck, Salt Lake Tribune (9-24-05) (Defunct Off-site link - check newspaper to read).

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography compiled and annotated by William F. Kimes and Maymie B. Kimes

John Muir in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations compiled and edited by Peter Browning

Letters from Alaska by John Muir , edited by Robert Engberg and Bruce Merrell

Letters to a Friend by John Muir

My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir

Nature's Beloved Son by Bonnie J. Gisel and Stephen J. Joseph

Northwest Passages: From the Pen of John Muir in California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska

A Passion for Nature by Donald Worster

Reviewed by Philip Seib, The Dallas Morning News, 10/28/08/ (off-site link removed by source)
Reviewed by Jon Christensen titled "Revisiting John Muir's legacy" San Francisco Chronicle, 11/2/08 (off-site link removed by source)
Reviewed by Jared Farmer, titled "The Great American Pantheist," Science 11/7/08 Vol. 322. no. 5903, pp. 859 - 860. (off-site link removed by source)
Reviewed by Dennis Drabelle titled "The inventor whose greatest discovery was the botany all around him."Washington Post, 11/8/08. (off-site link - last accessed 26 March 2022)
Reviewed by by Jeff Baker The Oregonian, 11/21/08 (off-site link removed by source)
Reviewed by Michael P. Branch titled "John O'Mountains" American Scientist Nov-Dec. 2008, Volume 96, Number 6, Page: 504. (off-site link)
Reviewed by Douglas Brinkley "John Muir treated the natural world as a cathedral of worship, and, when necessary, he used Old Testament fury to protect it." Los Angeles Times 11/30/08. (off-site link last accessed 26 March 22)
Reviewed by Dan Cryer, titled "Where the Wild things Were," Boston Globe (December 14, 2008) (Off-site link removed by source)
Reviewed by Mark Cocker, titled "Mountain Man" The Guardian (January 10, 2009) (off-site link last accessed 26 March 2022)

Stickeen by John Muir

Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir , by Linnie Marsh Wolfe
- Reviewed by Char Miller
Steep Trails by John Muir
- Reviewed by Richard F. Fleck: "Relevance of John Muir's Steep Trails" re-posted from naturwriting.com. (2016)

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir

Travels in Alaska by John Muir

The Wilderness World of John Muir, Edited by Edwin Way Teale

Reviewed by Anthony Netroy (1955)
Reviewed by Millie Stanley (Summer, 1999) - included in The John Muir Center for Regional Studies, "The John Muir Newsletter, Summer 1999" (1999). John Muir Newsletters. (off-site link - last accessed 26 march 2022))
Reviewed by Harold W. Wood, Jr. (2004)

The Writings of John Muir (10-volume set) (1916-1924)

The Yosemite , by John Muir, photographs by Galen Rowell