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A THOUSAND-MILE WALK 

 TO THE GULF 



This is John Muir's journal of his tramp from Indiana to Florida 

 in 1867, and of his trip thence to Cuba and finally to California. 

 This was Muir's first adventure into the world of his life work as 

 a student of nature — his matriculation, as he himself would have 

 put it, in the "University of the Wilderness," and he writes with 

 all the fresh enthusiasm of such an adventure at twenty-nine, and 

 with good measure of the literary art that distinguishes his later 

 writing. It was primarily a botanizing trip, but the journal is de- 

 voted mostly to the general aspects of the country and to experi- 

 ences with more or less hospitable humans and woods that were 

 always hospitable. The book will be warmly welcomed, because it is 



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mterestmg m itself as well as m the light it throws on the devel- 

 opment of the great naturalist's aims. The journal has been 

 skilfully edited by Prof. William F. Bade, who did a like ser- 

 vice for Muir's "Travels in Alaska/' 



Illustrated. Large cr. 8vo, $2.50 net. Also a large paper edition of 

 550 copies, of which 500 are for sale. Price, $5.00 net. 





ON ALPINE HEIGHTS AND 

 BRITISH CRAGS 



By GEORGE D. ABRAHAM 



"One of the most fascinating books of mountaineering I 

 have ever read. It ranks among the first half dozen books 

 which would be missed from any real mountaineer's li- 

 brary." — William Frederic Bad^, editor of The Sierra Club 

 Bulletin and one of the directors of the Sierra Club. 



24 illustrations. $2.50 net. 





BIRD THE STORY OF 

 FRIENDS SCOTCH 



By GILBERT H. TRAFTON By ENOS A. MILLS 



For the nature lover no gift could "Not even Rab or Stickeen lays a 

 be more appropriate than this beau- stronger hold ori the reader's affec- 

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 about birds that anyone, even a spe- dog Scotch, whose tragic history is 

 cial student, would want to know. told in this book." — The Dial. 

 Profusely illustrated in color. $2 net. Illustrated. 50 cents net. 





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