
The Yosemite
John Muir(Author)
Modern Library Inc (Publisher)
Published on 14. January 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-8129-6701-2 (ISBN)
Description
In the spring of 1869, John Muir was looking for means of support to fund his explorations of California's Central Valley region. A ranch owner offered him a job herding sheep in the Sierra Nevada. As he explored the region, he jotted down his keen observations of the scenic countryside, and he eventually became a guide for some of Yosemite's most famous visitors, including Ralph Waldo Emerson. Muir documented these experiences in The Yosemite, first published in 1912. It is at once a vivid, accurate description of the land and a passionate homage to nature.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is a facsimile of the 1912 edition and includes the original illustrations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
32 B&W PHOTOS; 1 MAP
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
361 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8129-6701-2 (9780812967012)
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Gretel Ehrlich, a native Californian, is the author of the award-winning The Solace of Open Spaces, as well as John Muir: Nature's Visionary and This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland, among other books and essays. She lives in Wyoming and California.