Our National Parks

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. Al