John Muir's Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa: Unpublished Journals and Selected Correspondence

"àa rich and fitting tribute." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "With previously unpublished journal entries and letters, this volume captures the original mountain man's final trek." -OUTSIDE "I am now writing up some notes, but when they will be ready for publication I do not know... It will be a long time before anything is arranged in book form." These words of John Muir, written in June 1912 to a friend, proved prophetic. The journals and notes to which the great naturalist and environmental figure was referring have languished, unpublished and virtually untouched, for nearly a century. Until now. Here edited and published for the first time, John Muir's travel journals from 1911-12, along with his associated correspondence, finally allow us to read in his own words the remarkable story of John Muir's last great journey.