John Muir, read by Brett Barry. Silver Hollow Audio, , unabridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $34.95 ISBN 978-0-9793115-5-0 Shortly after the end of the Civil War, Muir made his first trip to the Sierra ...

The Fresno County Public Library is set to receive a rare book collection valued at $26,000, containing first editions from John Steinbeck.

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Naturalist John Muir maintained a ...

In October 1867, the 29-year-old naturalist John Muir, looking rather the worse for wear, stumbled into the tiny island community of Cedar Key, Fla. For 53 days straight, he had botanized his way ...

In nature documentaries such as A Perfect Planet and Planet Earth, the wilderness seems free of human influence, Emma Marris wrote in a recent story for The Atlantic. Sweeping, unpeopled vistas and ...

"A ROAD RUNNING SOUTHWARD: FOLLOWING JOHN MUIR'S JOURNEY THROUGH AN ENDANGERED LAND" by Dan Chapman (Island Press, 256 pages, $28). In September 1867, when John Muir was not yet 30, the future founder ...

In 1998, journalist Dean King went on a family trip to Yosemite National Park for the first time. “Inspiration Point, true to its name, was incredibly inspiring,” King recalled recently in a video ...

In “Guardians of the Valley,” Dean King chronicles the friendship between the naturalist John Muir and the journalist Robert Underwood Johnson. By Lyndsie Bourgon When you purchase an independently ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. John Muir (1834-1914) may be well known in the U.S., but perhaps not so much abroad. Lomig, a French artist, ...