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John Muir

My First Summer in The Sierra

Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Oct. 8, 2016)

"The place seemed holy, where one might hope to see God. After dark, when the camp was at rest, I groped my way back to the altar boulder and passed the night on it,—above the water, beneath the leaves and stars,—everything still more impressive than by day, the fall seen dimly white, singing Nature's old love song with solemn enthusiasm, while the stars peering through the leaf-roof seemed to join in the white water's song. Precious night, precious day to abide in me forever. Thanks be to God for this immortal gift." -John Muir

"As a revelation of 'the glory and freedom of the out-of-doors' exemplified in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in and about the Yosemite Valley, Mr. Muir's narrative of his first impressions in those regions is most charming and refreshing." -The Dial

"John Muir, famous now, and long to remain so, as the man of the California Sierras, spent his first summer on their sunny heights as a sort of assistant sheepherder, with never a thought of anything but the delight of it, and the joy of the naturalist and explorer. This book is made of the daily record with which he then stored his note-book - a record of slow journeyings on the lofty meadows whence spring the Tuolumne and Merced rivers, where only narrow Indian trails gave a hint of human presence, and the wild animals were hardly less tame than the sheep, for tis was away back in '69. Muir was the last man to frighten them. He wanted to see them, just as they were, at home; and what he saw he straightway set down in that simple, refreshing, strong yet wonderfully flexible English, which makes his writing a pattern for descriptive literature....But while you read the book first in gentle enthusiasm over its style, and the feeling of the mountain-meadows and vast clear distances and crisp vibrant atmosphere it conveys, you will reread it for its information. The book is packed with notes of observations of nature in every aspect - and it is all fact. One does not know whether John Muir is most poet or most naturalist. He points out a beauty and then explains how and why it is beautiful, so naturally and unaffectedly that you do not dream you are being instructed until the information has got into your system; and when you fear he is going to begin teaching, you get merely an odd trait of the dogs or a comical difficulty with the silly sheep. In short there is nobody quite like John Muir, in the Sierras or out of them; and this book gives one of his most delightful revelations." -The Literary Digest

CONTENTS

I. Through the Foothills with a Flock Of Sheep

II. In Camp on the North Fork of the Merced

III. A Bread Famine

IV. To the High Mountains

V. The Yosemite

VI. Mount Hoffman and Lake Tenaya

VII. A Strange Experience

VIII. The Mono Trail

IX. Bloody Cañon and Mono Lake

X. The Tuolumne Camp

XI. Back To the Lowlands

ISBN
1539408647 / 9781539408642
Pages
184
Weight
11.8 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.42 in.

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