Book Reviews

See also

Annotated John Muir Bibliography for brief reviews.

Baptized into Wilderness: A Christian Perspective on John Muir by Richard Cartwright Austin
- Reviewed by Dennis Williams
John Muir by Rod Miller
- Reviewed by Martin Naparsteck, Salt Lake Tribune (9-24-05) (Off-site link)
John Muir: A Reading Bibliography compiled and annotated by William F. Kimes and Maymie B. Kimes
- Reviewed by Harold Wood
John Muir in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations compiled and edited by Peter Browning
- Reviewed by Harold Wood
Letters from Alaska by John Muir , edited by Robert Engberg and Bruce Merrell
- Reviewed by Frank E. Buske
- Reviewed by Bill Hunt
Letters to a Friend by John Muir
- Reviewed by Le Roy Jeffers
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
- Reviewed by Marion Randall Parsons
- Reviewed by P.B., Teen Ink Magazine (off-site link)
Nature's Beloved Son by Bonnie J. Gisel and Stephen J. Joseph
- Reviewed by by Jeff Baker The Oregonian, 11/21/08 (off-site link)
Northwest Passages: From the Pen of John Muir in California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska
- Reviewed by Abraham Hoffman
A Passion for Nature by Donald Worster
- Reviewed by Philip Seib, The Dallas Morning News, 10/28/08/ (off-site link)
- Reviewed by Jon Christensen titled "Revisiting John Muir's legacy" San Francisco Chronicle, 11/2/08 (off-site link)
- Reviewed by Jared Farmer, titled "The Great American Pantheist," Science 11/7/08 Vol. 322. no. 5903, pp. 859 - 860. (off-site link)
- Reviewed by Dennis Drabelle titled "The inventor whose greatest discovery was the botany all around him."Washington Post, 11/8/08. (off-site link)
- Reviewed by by Jeff Baker The Oregonian, 11/21/08 (off-site link)
- Reviewed by Michael P. Branch titled "John O'Mountains" American Scientist Nov-Dec. 2008, Volume 96, Number 6, Page: 504. (off-site link)
- Reviewed by Douglas Brinkley "John Muir treated the natural world as a cathedral of worship, and, when necessary, he used Old Testament fury to protect it." Los Angeles Times 11/30/08. (off-site link)
- Reviewed by Dan Cryer, titled "Where the Wild things Were," Boston Globe (December 14, 2008) (Off-site link)
- Reviewed by Mark Cocker, titled "Mountain Man" The Guardian (January 10, 2009) (off-site link)
Stickeen by John Muir

Reviewed by William Frederic Badè

Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir , by Linnie Marsh Wolfe
- Reviewed by Char Miller
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir
- Reviewed by Marion Randall Parsons
Travels in Alaska by John Muir
- Reviewed by Marion Randall Parsons
The Wilderness World of John Muir, Edited by Edwin Way Teale
- Reviewed by Anthony Netroy (1955)
- Reviewed by Millie Stanley (1999) (PDF - Off-site link - part of John Muir Newsletter)
- Reviewed by Harold W. Wood, Jr. (2004)
The Yosemite , by John Muir, photographs by Galen Rowell
- Reviewed by Marion Randall Parsons
- Reviewed by Harold W. Wood, Jr.
Alaska Days with John Muir, by S. Hall Young
- Review by Le Roy Jeffers

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