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My first summer in the Sierra
Format:
Book
Title:
My first summer in the Sierra
Publication:
Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company ; Cambridge : The Riverside Press, 1911.
Physical Description:
vii, 353 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
General Note:
Text illustrated with reproductions of sketches made by Muir during an 1869 trip to the Sierra; and with 12 plates (frontispiece plus 11 additional plates) of reproductions of photographs by Herbert Gleason of views of the Sierra; photographs, tinted green and sepia, are each preceded by leaf of guard tissue printed with letterpress caption.

Includes list of illustrations (plates and sketches) on pages vii-[viii].

Publisher's advertisements on page [2] of first sequence for other books by John Muir.

Issued in publisher's binding of dark green cloth; gold-stamped spine title; upper cover illustrated with a Sierra mountain scene of pines and mountains, stamped in black, green, and gold; top edges gilt; with ivory dust jacket bearing a photograph of John Muir on front, and price of $2.50.
Summary:
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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