Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Meeting John Muir's Family, Friends, and Adventures: Between the Calypso borealis and the Araucaria imbricata -- PART I: Family and Friends -- 1: John Muir and the John Swett Family -- 2: John Muir and the Bairns: Muir and His Relationship with Children -- 3: California's Kindred Spirits: John Muir and William Keith -- PART II: Controversies -- 4: Pride, Prejudice, and Patrimony: The Dispute Between George Wharton James and the Family and Friends of John Muir -- 5: "Wealth and Beauty": John Muir and Forest Conservation -- 6: With Friends Like These: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Drama of Environmental Politics -- PART III: Literary Aspects -- 7: Domesticity, Tourism, and the National Parks in John Muir's Late Writings -- 8: If Trees Are Us: A Relativity Theory Showing the Genius of John Muir's Domestic Vision of Nature for Public Policy and the National Ethos -- PART IV: Adventures -- 9: Near and Far: Burroughs and Muir on the Harriman Alaska Expedition -- 10: "Those Who Walk Apart but Ever Together Are True Companions": Jeanne Carr and John Muir in the High Sierra -- 11: Meeting Muir's Mountains -- 12: John Muir's Travels to South America and Africa -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.