The Mountains Of California

by John Muir

Overview

*ILLUSTRATED EDITION

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."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163197071
Publisher:	Walrus Books Publisher
Publication date:	12/12/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

John Muir (/mj??r/; April 21, 1838 - December 24, 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 of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas