Book Reviews

See also

• Annotated John Muir Bibliography for brief reviews.

• Baptized into Wilderness: A Christian Perspective on John Muir by Richard Cartwright Austin
  • Reviewed by Dennis Williams
• John Muir by Rod Miller
  • Reviewed by Martin Naparsteck, Salt Lake Tribune (9-24-05) (Off-site link)
• John Muir: A Reading Bibliography compiled and annotated by William F. Kimes and Maymie B. Kimes
  • Reviewed by Harold Wood
• John Muir in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations compiled and edited by Peter Browning
  • Reviewed by Harold Wood
• Letters from Alaska by John Muir , edited by Robert Engberg and Bruce Merrell
  • Reviewed by Frank E. Buske
  • Reviewed by Bill Hunt
• Letters to a Friend by John Muir
  • Reviewed by Le Roy Jeffers
• My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
  • Reviewed by Marion Randall Parsons
  • Reviewed by P.B., Teen Ink Magazine (off-site link)
• Nature's Beloved Son by Bonnie J. Gisel and Stephen J. Joseph
  • Reviewed by by Jeff Baker The Oregonian, 11/21/08 (off-site link)
• Northwest Passages: From the Pen of John Muir in California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska
  • Reviewed by Abraham Hoffman
• A Passion for Nature by Donald Worster
  • Reviewed by Philip Seib, The Dallas Morning News, 10/28/08/ (off-site link)
  • Reviewed by Jon Christensen titled "Revisiting John Muir's legacy" San Francisco Chronicle, 11/2/08 (off-site link)
    
  • Reviewed by Jared Farmer, titled "The Great American Pantheist," Science 11/7/08 Vol. 322. no. 5903, pp. 859 - 860. (off-site link)
  • Reviewed by Dennis Drabelle titled "The inventor whose greatest discovery was the botany all around him."Washington Post, 11/8/08. (off-site link)
  • Reviewed by by Jeff Baker The Oregonian, 11/21/08 (off-site link)
  • 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)
  • Reviewed by Dan Cryer, titled "Where the Wild things Were," Boston Globe (December 14, 2008) (Off-site link)
  • Reviewed by Mark Cocker, titled "Mountain Man" The Guardian (January 10, 2009) (off-site link)
• Stickeen by John Muir
• Reviewed by William Frederic Badè
• Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir , by Linnie Marsh Wolfe
  • Reviewed by Char Miller
• The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir
  • Reviewed by Marion Randall Parsons
• Travels in Alaska by John Muir
  • Reviewed by Marion Randall Parsons
• The Wilderness World of John Muir, Edited by Edwin Way Teale
  • Reviewed by Anthony Netroy (1955)
  • Reviewed by Millie Stanley (1999) (PDF - Off-site link - part of John Muir Newsletter)
  • Reviewed by Harold W. Wood, Jr. (2004)
• The Yosemite , by John Muir, photographs by Galen Rowell
  • Reviewed by Marion Randall Parsons
  • Reviewed by Harold W. Wood, Jr.
• Alaska Days with John Muir, by S. Hall Young
  • Review by Le Roy Jeffers

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