John Muir: A Miscellany edited by Laurie Battle

‘The tendency nowadays to wander in wilderness is delightful to see. Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that 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.’

A rich, inspiring and hugely entertaining selection of John Muir's writings, testament to the author’s vision and the absolute requirement to preserve our common natural inheritance.