The Mountains of California - Softcover

John Muir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087156663X ISBN 13: 9780871566638

Publisher: Sierra Club Books, 1989

Synopsis

John Muir’s ebullient spirit and love of nature infuse these accounts of visiting Yosemite Valley, Kings Canyon, sequoia groves, and Mount Whitney. Blending keen observations of flora, geography, and geology, the natural forces that shape the landscape, and the changing seasons, Muir paints a timeless portrait of the wilderness he called the Range of Light, the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I have ever seen.” Also included are visits to two famous Cascades peaks, Mount Shasta and Mount St. Helens

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

When John Muir traveled to California in 1868, he found the pristine mountain ranges that would inspire his life's work. The Mountains of California is the culmination of the ten years Muir spent in the Sierra Nevadas, studying every crag, crook, and valley with great care and contemplation.
Bill McKibben writes in his Introduction that Muir "invents, by sheer force of his love, an entirely new vocabulary and grammar of the wild . . . a language of ecstasy and exuberance."
The Mountains of California is as vibrant and vital today as when it was written over a century ago.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes the photographs and line drawings from the original 1898 edition.

About the Author:

John Muir (1838-1914), founder of the Sierra Club, was foremost in initiating the national struggle to save wilderness areas. His descriptions of "the California experience," well received in his day, have never lost their impact. Gretel Ehrlich is the best-selling author of The Solace of Open Spaces.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sierra Club Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 087156663X
• ISBN 13: 9780871566638
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292