The Wilderness Of California Illustrated Edition

Author : John Muir
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8027304474
Total Pages : 895 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wilderness of California (Illustrated Edition) written by John Muir and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 895 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Muir moved to San Francisco, he immediately left for a week-long 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 First Summer in the Sierra. Muir wrote few more books about his days in California and also a few about California's nature and wild life including The Mountains of California, Our National Parks, The Yosemite and Picturesque California.

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mountains of California (Illustrated Edition) written by John Muir and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mountains of California is Muir's tribute to the beauties of the Sierra. 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 and glaciers of Sierra, but also the nature and geology of the area.

Author : John Muir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mountains of California written by John Muir and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Obi Kaufmann
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN 13 : 9781597144025
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The California Field Atlas written by Obi Kaufmann and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] gorgeously illustrated compendium."--Sunset This lavishly illustrated atlas takes readers off the beaten path and outside normal conceptions of California, revealing its myriad ecologies, topographies, and histories in exquisite maps and trail paintings. Based on decades of exploring the backcountry of the Golden State, artist-adventurer Obi Kaufmann blends science and art to illuminate the multifaceted array of living, connected systems like no book has done before. Kaufmann depicts layer after layer of the natural world, delighting in the grand scale and details alike. The effect is staggeringly beautiful: presented alongside California divvied into its fifty-eight counties, for example, we consider California made up of dancing tectonic plates, of watersheds, of wildflower gardens. Maps are enhanced by spirited illustrations of wildlife, keys that explain natural phenomena, and a clear-sighted but reverential text. Full of character and color, a bit larger than life, The California Field Atlas is the ultimate road trip companion and love letter to a place.

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Echo Library
ISBN 13 : 9781847024527
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mountains of California (Illustrated Edition) written by John Muir and published by Echo Library. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Muir (1838-1914), also known as 'John of the Mountains' and 'Father of the National Parks', was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the US. His activism helped preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and many other wilderness areas, and the Sierra Club, which he co-founded in 1892, remains a prominent conservation organization. The spiritual quality and enthusiasm for nature expressed in his writings has inspired readers, including presidents and congressmen, to take action to preserve large nature areas. Muir's family emigrated from Scotland to the US in 1849, starting a farm in Portage, Wisconsin, and aged 22 Muir enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Although he never graduated he learned enough geology and botany to inform his later wanderings. Muir first came to California in 1868 and devoted six years to the study of the Yosemite Valley. After working in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, he returned to California in 1880 and made his home there. In The Mountains of California (1894) he pays tribute to the beauties of the Sierra, recounting not only his own journies by foot through the mountains, glaciers, forests, and valleys, but also the geological and natural history of the region, ranging from the history of the glaciers, the patterns of tree growth, and the daily life of the animals and insects. With 66 black and white illustrations from engravings and photographs.

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Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California's Wilderness Areas: Mountains and coastal ranges written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1386 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Muir: Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies, Memoirs & Letters (Illustrated Edition) written by John Muir and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 1386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection of John Muir has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all device. Table of Contents: Picturesque California The Mountains of California Our National Parks My First Summer in the Sierra The Yosemite Travels in Alaska Stickeen: The Story of a Dog The Cruise of the Corwin A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf Steep Trails Studies in the Sierra Articles and Speeches: The National Parks and Forest Reservations Save the Redwoods Snow-Storm on Mount Shasta Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park A Rival of the Yosemite The Treasures of the Yosemite Yosemite Glaciers Yosemite in Winter Yosemite in Spring Edward Henry Harriman Edward Taylor Parsons The Hetch Hetchy Valley The Grand Cañon of the Colorado Autobiographical: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth Letters to a Friend Tribute: Alaska Days with John Muir by Samuel Hall Young 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.

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My First Summer in the Sierra (Illustrated Edition) written by John Muir and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-03 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My First Summer in the Sierra describes two years period of Muir's life during which he lived in a cabin in Californian mountains. 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.

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Watchmaker Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781603862851
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mountains of California - Illustrated written by John Muir and published by Watchmaker Pub. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Laura Cunningham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781597143066
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A State of Change written by Laura Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its hard to imagine Californias landscape before European explorers arrived and recorded what they saw. Laura Cunninghams research goes well beyond that and her art brings that landscape to life once again