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| The Wild Muir: Twenty-two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures | 
| Creators: Lee Stetson, Fiona King
Publisher: Heyday Books/Yosemite Association
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 205195
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 216
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1597140937
Dewey Decimal Number: 810
EAN: 9781597140935
ASIN: 1597140937
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
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 Giddy Feeling December 26, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read "Muir Nature Writings" before reading "Wild Muir". I think having an understanding of who Muir is makes this a better read. The title accurately describes this book as his "greatest adventures". They were wild. I would describe Muir as extremely passionate about nature and being a part of it. This book is for those who can relate to this kind of passion. Muir writes in a gloriously giddy style. I enjoy it because nobody writes like that anymore. I love his flowery descriptions of meadow flowers and scents of pine in the wind. It reminds me of being "out there" and makes me giddy in remembrance.
The Wild Muir: 22 of John Muir's Greatest Adventures March 29, 2007
We love the stories that take you to John's Adventures...and the Sierra's
Twenty-two of Muir's best scootcher's! July 31, 2004
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
Lee Stetson, an actor who regularly has played Muir in Yosemite, compiled these 22 tales in this very readable, short book which I obtained in Tuolumne meadows visitor center in Yosemite National Forest. The Wild Muir has been on my Amazon wish list for a long time, so glad I bought my copy in the heart of Muir Territory, where one cannot escape some mention of his name in the many trails and areas he regularly trekked through. What a nice backyard, I constantly repeated to myself while hiking several days at Tuolumne! Every twist and turn of the trails revealed a new, pristine vista that the best panoramic camera could not capture. I felt like I needed a 360 degree camera to capture the beauty of this place, but I don't think anybody makes those these days! Muir expressed these same feelings when he writes: "Pursuing my lonely way down the valley, I turned again and again to gaze on the glorious picture, throwing up my arms to inclose it as in a frame. After long ages of growth in the darkness beneath the glaciers, through sunshine and storms, it seemed now to be ready and waiting for the elected artist, like yellow wheat for the reaper; and I could not help wishing that I were that artist. I had to be content, however, to take it into my soul."
It was here in Tuolumne and Yosemite that Muir would gather those who shared his desire to preserve this wilderness area like Theodore Roosevelt and others, and thankfully, they did just that. The waters still as clear as crystal, teeming still with trout.
Muir's "scootchers" began as a child in Dunbar, Scotland, his mountaineering prowess seemingly inbred, though his brother David, seems not to have shared the same level of fearfulness. In the first chapter, Muir writes of his home, "One of our best playgrounds was the famous Dunbar Castle, to which King Edward fled after his defeat at Bannockburn...The roof of our house, as well as the crags and walls of the old castle, offered fine mountaineering exercise." Of course, Muir would drag his brother David out of their room onto the roof after their mother put them to bed, telling them to "sleep like gude bairns". The first "scootcher" (adventure/daring) told in this book. In the same chapter, he writes that a servant girl would tell them about hell where bad people would go to live eternally. Muir exclaimed indomitably that "I could climb out of it. I imagined it was only a sooty pit with stone walls like those of the castle, and I felt sure there must be chunks and cracks in the masonry for fingers and toes."!
The other twenty-one scootchers contain similar tales of Muir rescuing others who attempted to follow his paths as well as his own hair-raising scootchers sliding down glaciers, surviving powerful wind storms and earthquakes in Yosemite and elsewhere.
It was a real treat to read these adventures in those wild, Muir woods of the Sierras.
 The Wild Muir May 23, 2004
3 out of 46 found this review helpful
This book is a total bore. The flowery description is beautiful for the first three sentences, but then it becomes a tranparent cover-up for a book with no plot! Even I could write a more interesting book, and I failed high school english! Muir was a great person, but he sould have stayed where he was better aquianted: the woods! Anyone who enjoys this book obviously has never seen a tree before. A whole book dedicated to them is ironic and lame.
 Muir is crazy! September 4, 2003
9 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book tells of several adventures that John Muir had in his life. It confirms that the guy was a bit of a lunatic, but it makes for enjoyable reading. Some of the stories are better than others, but at least they are short and easy to read.
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