Books with title Wilderness Ways

Part of John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their preservation. His successes dot the landscape and are evident in all the natural features that bear his name: forests, lakes, trails, and glaciers. Here collected are some of Muir's finest wilderness essays, ranging in subject matter from Alaska to Yellowstone, from Oregon to the High Sierra. This book is part of a series that celebrates the tradition of literary naturalists―writers who embrace the natural world as the setting for some of our most euphoric and serious experiences. These books map the intimate connections between the human and the natural world. Literary naturalists transcend political boundaries, social concerns, and historical milieus; they speak for what Henry Beston called the “other nations” of the planet. Their message acquires more weight and urgency as wild places become increasingly scarce.

Part of John Muir's appeal to modern audiences is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their preservation. His successes dot the landscape and are evident in all the natural features that bear his name: forests, lakes, trails, and glaciers. Here collected are some of Muir's finest wilderness essays, ranging in subject matter from Alaska to Yellowstone, from Oregon to the High Sierra.

2018 Reprint of Ten Essays originally written by Muir and published in various periodicals and newspapers. This selection reprints ten classic essays by Nature writer and activist John Muir. Part of John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their preservation. Essays included are:The Discovery of Glacier Bay -- The Alaska Trip -- Twenty Hill Hollow -- Snow -- A Near View of the High Sierra -- Among the Animals of the Yosemite -- The Yellowstone National Park -- A Great Storm In Utah -- Wild Wool -- The Forests of Oregon

What if nature fights back? Still in a daze, I take it all in: the wind, the leaden skies, the churning moody sea. And, far in the distance, a misty outline. Skelsay. Wilderness haven. Building-site. Luxury-retreat-to-be. And now, home. When her father’s construction work takes Em’s family to the uninhabited island of Skelsay, she is excited, but also a little uneasy. Soon, Em and her friend, Zac, realize that the setbacks, mishaps, and accidents on the island point to something altogether more sinister: The wilderness all around them has declared war. Danger lurks everywhere. But can Em and Zac persuade the adults to believe it before it’s too late?

Another excellent nature book that is quite up to the high standard of "Ways of Wood Folk." The following sketches, like the "Ways of Wood Folk", are the result of many years of personal observation in the woods and fields. They are studies of animals, pure and simple, not of animals with human motives and imaginations. Indeed, it is hardly necessary for genuine interest to give human traits to the beasts. Any animal is interesting enough as an animal, and has character enough of his own, without borrowing anything from man—as one may easily find out by watching long enough. Most wild creatures have but small measure of gentleness in them, and that only by instinct and at short stated seasons. Hence I have given both sides and both kinds, the shadows and lights, the savagery as well as the gentleness of the wilderness creatures. It were pleasanter, to be sure, especially when you have been deeply touched by some exquisite bit of animal devotion, to let it go at that, and to carry with you henceforth an ideal creature. "Wilderness Ways" is written in the same intensely interesting style as its predecessor, "Ways of Wood Folk." The hidden life of the wilderness is here presented by stories gathered, not from books or hearsay, but from the author's personal contact with wild things of every description. "A hunter who can watch a herd of deer come toward him 'with small wish to use a rifle, as there was meat enough in camp,' is to be trusted by man as well as beast, and we wish that every boy who is interested in the wild folk of the woods - and what boy is not? - might make the acquaintance of Megaleep the Wanderer and Kagax the Bloodthirsty, and hear from one who has shared it of their life in the summer and the winter woods." -The Outlook "Mr. Long is one of the most interesting of the modern school of students and writers on nature study. He has a real love of the wild life, and has spent much time alone in the wilderness with the beasts and birds, and knows them intimately. He is an absolutely truthful witness, and reports wild creatures as they really are, disclosing the good and the bad. Therefore his books are always healthful, instructive and interesting. He does not carry over human attributes into the characters of the dumb brutes. There is enough that is interesting, fresh and suggestive in their ways and moods without adding to them or subtracting from them. Mr. Long's books are to be commended, unreservedly, as of the utmost value for supplementary reading. And the general reader who takes them up will not fail to read the whole from start to finish." -Education CONTENTS MEGALEEP THE WANDERER KILLOOLEET, LITTLE SWEET-VOICE KAGAX THE BLOODTHIRSTY KOOKOOSKOOS, WHO CATCHES THE WRONG RAT CHIGWOOLTZ THE FROG CLOUD WINGS THE EAGLE UPWEEKIS THE SHADOW HUKWEEM THE NIGHT VOICE GLOSSARY OF INDIAN NAMES