Will Explore Cold Siberia. John Muir and Sargent, the Tree Man, Are to Cross the Great Steppes.

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1903
• Subjects: Environmentalist; naturalist; travel; conservation; national parks; John Muir; history; pamphlets; journal articles; speeches; writing; annotation; Norway; glacier; Siberia
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/607; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmb/article/1606/viewcontent/A15.pdf

WILL EXPLORE COLD SIBERIA ♦+++++*++++♦++++♦+♦♦♦♦♦++++♦+ ♦♦♦♦♦♦ JOHN MUIR, The eminent scientist who is going to Siberia to study the vast forests there John Muir and Sargent, the Tree Man, Are to Cross the Great Steppes. By Baiiey Millard In his sixty-fifth year, and still as sturdy a mountain climber, as when he discovered the great Alaskan-glacier which bers his. name, John Muir, who has carefully explored all the wildest and most inaccessible places in our land where Nature hides herself away in secret beauty, and who has sailed the fjords of coldest Norway and the coral-lined coves of warmest Polynesia, is making his studies o£ peaks and the structure of plants, is now preparing to go farther afield than ever before. He is going to explore the forests of Siberia, and Manchuria in company with Cargent, the tree man, who wrote that exhaustive "Silva of North America," in fourteen enormous volumes. Muir will leave his home at Martinez about the 15th of May and will join Sargent in New York. They will then sail for Europe and take the Transsiberian Railway and journey across the great steppes to that rare country which is said to be of all wildernesses the most howling. Mr. Sargent shows the sapiency of the scientist in uniting his fortunes with Muir, whose woodcraft is probably superior to that of any other man in America. Muir is a man whom no prospective hardship can frighten, except, possibly, crushing through a street crowd, for he always prefers to walk on a glacial pavement to one on the concrete. He thinks nothing of starting out on a fortnight's tramp in the higb Sierras with no other equipment.than a bag of bread, a tineup and a handful of tea. In fact, that meager provision proved sufficient for him in all his hardest tramps, and he makes light of some of his most wearisome and stupendous tasks. Clarence King, after long and careful preparation, climbed to the top o£ Mount Tyndall and afterward wrote of his awful perils and narrow es- ca,pes during the tremendous ...