Passion for Nature

"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature''s loveliness. My own special self is nothing."In Donald Worster''s magisterial biography, John Muir''s "special self" is fully explored as is his extraordinary ability, then...