{"product_id":"2940016121659","title":"Naturalist Explorer John Muir Yosemite Muir Glacier","description":"Originally published in 1901, this vintage magazine article contains lots of great info and illustrations seldom seen in the last 110 years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Muir, naturalist, explorer and writer.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe has been styled \"the Californian Thoreau,\" and Emerson, who knew and liked him, once went so far as to call him \"a more wonderful man than Thoreau.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor twenty-five years John Muir has made out of doors his realm. For more than half this time he lived and wandered alone over the high Sierras, through the Yosemite Valley, and among the glaciers of California and Alaska, studying, sketching, and climbing. At night he sometimes rested luxuriously, wrapped in a half-blanket beside a camp fire; sometimes, when fuel was wanting, and the way too arduous to admit of carrying his piece of blanket, he hollowed for himself a snug nest in the snow. He is no longer a young man, but when last I saw him he was making plans to go again to the North, to explore the four new glaciers dis¬covered last summer by the Harriman Expedition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What do you come here for?\" two Alaskan Indians once asked him, when they had accompanied him as far, through perilous ways, as he could hire or coax them to go.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To get knowledge,\" was his reply.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Indians grunted; they had no words to express their opinion of this extraordinary lunatic. They turned back and left him to venture alone across the great glacier which now bears his name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd, thus begins the story of John Muir ...","brand":"history-bytes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156693565680,"sku":"2940016121659","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016121659_p0.jpg?v=1763629458","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016121659","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}