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A biography which explores how Muir's life experiences led to his work in the preservation wing of the conservation movement, contributed to his founding of the Sierra Club, and gave him the insight into nature which has resonated with people for decades. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portlan

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CHOICE Review

Wilkins's new biography of Muir is a distinguished contribution to this series. The study is based, as with others in the series, on published primary and secondary materials. Wilkins presents a balanced picture of Muir's Scotch Campbellite background and personal development, his pacifism, his inventive mind, his vital attachment to nature, and the evolution of his wilderness ethic. His role in the development of American conservation thought is discussed in detail, together with his writing, his family life, his triumphs, and his many personal and professional frustrations. Not the least of the merits of this book is the bibliographic essay, which effectively summarizes the enormous body of work published in the last century by and about Muir. Strongly recommended for high school and college students and for general readers who are seeking a relatively brief but comprehensive introduction to the subject. Undergraduate; two-year technical program students. K. B. Sterling; formerly, Harford Community College

Booklist Review

Muir Wilderness Area, Muir Peak, and Muir Glacier are only a few of the commemorations to this pioneer preservationist, early biocentrist, cofounder of the Sierra Club, and the inspirational force in the successful campaign to protect the Yosemite Valley wilderness by means of national park designation. Wilkins follows Muir from his Scottish boyhood, clouded by a harsh, fundamentalist father, to an adolescence of arduous farmwork in Wisconsin to a lifelong career of exploration and study of wildernesses, particularly those of the western U.S., and vividly relates some of Muir's more perilous adventures on cliffside and snowfield. Muir was an ingenious inventor, an accomplished naturalist who reconstructed the glaciation that formed Yosemite Valley, and a persuasive writer. His religious passion for pristine wilderness, coupled with intelligence and eloquence, swayed many influential citizens, including Teddy Roosevelt, to take up preservation causes. An affectionate, uncluttered tale of an American folk hero. --Brenda Grazis