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The Mountains Of California
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Author : John Muir
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
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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. The mountains of California (1894) is his book length tribute to the beauties of the Sierras. He recounts not only his own journeys by foot through the mountains, glaciers, forests, and valleys, but also the geological and natural history of the region, ranging from the history of glaciers, the patterns of tree growth, and the daily life of animals and insects. While Yosemite naturally receives great attention, Muir also expounds on less well known beauty spots.
California Mountain Ranges
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Author : Russell B. Hill
language : en
Publisher: Falcon Guides
Release Date : 1986
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The Mountains Of California
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Author : John Muir
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1903
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The Mountains Of California With Original Drawings Photographs
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Author : John Muir
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2024-01-09
The Mountains Of California With Original Drawings Photographs written by John Muir and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-09 with Travel categories.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Mountains of California (With Original Drawings & Photographs)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Mountains of California is John Muir's tribute to the beauties of the Sierra, in the book form. When he came to California and finally settled in San Francisco, John Muir immediately left for a visit to Yosemite, a place he had only read about. Seeing it for the first time, Muir noted that "He was overwhelmed by the landscape, scrambling down steep cliff faces to get a closer look at the waterfalls, whooping and howling at the vistas, jumping tirelessly from flower to flower." He climbed a number of mountains, including Cathedral Peak and Mount Dana, and hiked the old Indian trail down Bloody Canyon to Mono Lake. He vividly described not only his journeys through the mountains, valleys andglaciersof Sierra, but also the nature and geology of the area. John Muir (1838 - 1914) was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is a prominent American conservation organization.
The Mountains Of California
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Author : John Muir
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-08
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Go where you may within the bounds of California, mountains are ever in sight, charming and glorifying every landscape. Yet so simple and massive is the topography of the State in general views, that the main central portion displays only one valley, and two chains of mountains which seem almost perfectly regular in trend and height: the Coast Range on the west side, the Sierra Nevada on the east. These two ranges coming together in curves on the north and south inclose a magnificent basin, with a level floor more than 400 miles long, and from 35 to 60 miles wide. This is the grand Central Valley of California, the waters of which have only one outlet to the sea through the Golden Gate. But with this general simplicity of features there is great complexity of hidden detail. The Coast Range, rising as a grand green barrier against the ocean, from 2000 to 8000 feet high, is composed of innumerable forest-crowned spurs, ridges, and rolling hill-waves which inclose a multitude of smaller valleys; some looking out through long, forest-lined vistas to the sea; others, with but few trees, to the Central Valley; while a thousand others yet smaller are embosomed and concealed in mild, round-browed hills, each, with its own climate, soil, and productions.
The Mountains Of California
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Author : John Muir
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
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The Mountains Of California
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Author : John Muir
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-07
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The Mountains of California: Annotated by John MuirThe Mountains of California by John Muir. Initially distributed in 1894, Muir takes readers on an excursion through the Sierra Nevada. The reader will be enthralled by Muir's description of this "sublime wilderness of mountains, their snowy summits towering together in crowded abundance, Muir broadly expounds about the storms and avalanches, waterfalls, gardens and meadows, and the exciting animal, and beyond. He has also shown his unquenchable hunger for exploration. His prose and literature join with scholarly lecture exposition; His geographical and topographical information is without a doubt commendable. His geographical and land information is worthy and accurate for an anatomical of the gorges, the granite volumes, the passages through the mountains, lakes, trees, waterfalls, birds, wild animals, and the weather changes.If you enjoy travelogue, philosophy, and history of nature writing, then this book precisely worth it.
The Mountains Of California Illustrated
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Author : John Muir
language : en
Publisher: Watchmaker Pub
Release Date : 2010-01
The Mountains Of California Illustrated written by John Muir and has been published by Watchmaker Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01 with Nature categories.
With Over 50 Original Illustrations: The Sierra Nevada - The Glaciers - The Snow - A Near View Of The High Sierra - The Passes - The Glacier Lakes - The Glacier Meadows - The Forests - The Douglas Squirrel - A Wind-Storm In The Forests - The River Floods - Sierra Thunder-Storms - The Water-Ouzel - The Wild Sheep - In The Sierra Foot-Hills - The Bee-Pastures
The Mountains Of California Classic Reprint
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Author : John Muir
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-12-03
The Mountains Of California Classic Reprint written by John Muir and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-03 with Science categories.
Excerpt from The Mountains of California Making your way through the mazes of the Coast Range to the summit of any Of the inner peaks or passes opposite San Francisco, in the clear spring time, the grandest and most telling of all California landscapes is outspread before you. At your feet lies the great Central Valley glowing golden in the sunshine, extending north and south farther than the eye can reach, one smooth, flowery, lake-like bed of fertile soil. Along its eastern margin rises the mighty Sierra, miles in height, reposing like a smooth, cumulous cloud in the sunny Sky, and so gloriously colored, and so luminous, it seems to be not clothed with light, but Wholly composed of it, like the wall of some celestial city. Along the top, and extending a good way down, you see a pale, pearl-gray belt of snow; and below it a belt of blue and dark purple, marking the extension Of the for ests; and along the base of the range a broad belt Of rose-purple and yellow, where lie the miner's gold fields and the foot-hill gardens. All these colored belts blending smoothly make a wall of light inef fably fine, and as beautiful as a rainbow, yet firm as adamant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Picturesque California
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Author : John Muir
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
Picturesque California written by John Muir and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with British Columbia categories.
Features text, as well as works by such artists as Thomas Moran, Thomas Hill, Julian Rix, George Spiel, Frederic Remington, E.J. Meeker, Albert E. Sterner, C.D. Robinson, A.I. Keller, Harry Fenn, and W.M. Cary.