My First Summer in the Sierra (With Original Drawings & Photographs) (eBook)

Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies

John Muir (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
353 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
978-80-268-4757-1 (ISBN)

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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 lived in the cabin for two years, and wrote about this period in his book My First Summer in the Sierra.
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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.11.2015
• Illustrationen: Herbert W. Gleason, Charles S. Olcott
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: adventure memoir • a walk in the woods • conservation activism • environmental preservation • Grand Canyon Thunder • Historical wilderness • Into the wild • Jack London • john burroughs • mountain climbing • Naturalist experience • Nature exploration • on the road • Route 66 • Scottish-American author • Sierra Nevada • The Amateur Emigrant • The Silverado Squatters • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre • Yosemite landscape
• ISBN-10: 80-268-4757-1 / 8026847571
• ISBN-13: 978-80-268-4757-1 / 9788026847571