An edition of My first summer in the Sierra (1911)

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An edition of My first summer in the Sierra (1911)

My first summer in the Sierra

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Famed naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) came to Wisconsin as a boy and studied at the University of Wisconsin. He first came to California in 1868 and devoted six years to the study of the Yosemite Valley. After work in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, he returned to California in 1880 and made the state his home. One of the heroes of America's conservation movement, Muir deserves much of the credit for making the Yosemite Valley a protected national park and for alerting Americans to the need to protect this and other natural wonders. My first summer in the Sierra (1911) is based on Muir's original journals and sketches of his 1869 stay in the Sierras. Hired to supervise a San Joaquin sheep owner's flock at the headwaters of the Merced and Tulomne Rivers, Muir sets out for the mountains in June, returning to the Valley in September. He describes the flora and fauna of the mountains as well as his visits to Yosemite and his climbs of Mt. Hoffman and other peaks in the range.

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Cover of: My first summer in the Sierra
My first summer in the Sierra
1998, Houghton Mifflin
in English - 1st Mariner books ed.
Cover of: My first summer in the Sierra
My first summer in the Sierra
1990, Sierra Club Books
in English
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Gentle Wilderness
February 1986, Book Sales
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Cover of: Gentle wilderness
Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada
1968, Sierra Club/Ballantine Books
in English
Cover of: Gentle wilderness
Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada.
1967, Sierra Club
in English - [Rev. ed.]
Cover of: My first summer in the Sierra
My first summer in the Sierra
1917, Houghton Mifflin
in English
Cover of: My first summer in the Sierra
My first summer in the Sierra
1916, Houghton Mifflin
in English - Manuscript ed.
Cover of: My first summer in the Sierra
My first summer in the Sierra
1911, Houghton Mifflin
in English
Cover of: My first summer in the Sierra
My first summer in the Sierra
1911, Houghton Mifflin Company
in English
Cover of: My first summer in the Sierra
My first summer in the Sierra
1911, Houghton Mifflin company
in English

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F868.S5 M9

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vii, 353 p.
Number of pages
353

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OL7235465M
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11014183
OCLC/WorldCat
1861775

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OL1618182W

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Introduction by Mike Davis; Illustrated with photographs by Herbert W. Gleason and drawings by the author

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