<P><B>John Muir's extraordinary vision of America comes to life in these fascinating selections from his personal journals.</B></P> <p> </P> <p>As a conservationist, John Muir traveled through most of the American wilderness alone and on foot, without a gun or a sleeping bag. In 1903, while on a three-day camping trip with President Theodore Roosevelt, he convinced the president of the importance of a national conservation program, and he is widely recognized for saving the Grand Canyon and Arizona's Petrified Forest. Muir's writing, based on journals he kept throughout his life, gives our generation a picture of an America still wild and unsettled only one hundred years ago. In <I>The Wildernesss World</I> <I>of John Muir</I> Edwin Way Teale has selected the best of Muir's writing from all of his major works—including <I>My First Summer in the Sierra</I> and <I>Travels in Alaska</I>—to provide a singular collection that provides to be "magnificent, thrilling, exciting, breathtaking, and awe-inspiring" (<I>Kirkus Reviews</I>).