The Wild Muir : Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

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Here is an entertaining collection of John Muir's most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosemite Valley to his night spent weathering a windstorm at the top of a tree to death-defying falls on Alaskan glaciers, the renowned outdoorsman's exploits are related in passages that are by turns exhilarating, unnerving, dizzying, and outrageous. Abstract: Here is an entertaining collection of John Muir's most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosemite Valley to his night spent weathering a windstorm at the top of a tree to death-defying falls on Alaskan glaciers, the renowned outdoorsman's exploits are related in passages that are by turns exhilarating, unnerving, dizzying, and outrageous Content: Table of Contents Introduction THE ADVENTURES Good Scootchers Near Drowning At the Bottom of the Well Blind! Fever! The Brink of the Yosemite Fall An Interview with a Bear In the Midst of the Yosemite Fall Climbing the Ice Cone The Snow Avalanche Ride Rattlesnakes The Earthquake The Ascent of Mount Ritter A Geologist's Winter Walk The Tree Ride A Perilous Night on Mount Shasta Mono Lake Windstorm Thirst The Rescue on Glenora Peak Stickeen A Sled Trip on the Muir Glacier Nearly Crushed by an Iceberg Milestones in the Life of John Muir.