My First Summer in the Sierra - Couverture souple

Muir, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0871567482 ISBN 13 : 9780871567482

Editeur : University of California Press, 1990

Synopsis

This volume in the "John Muir Library Series" is the most popular of Muir's works: the naturalist's account of his first visit to the High Sierra and the Yosemite. There he recognized his life's calling: to preserve wilderness areas. Muir's extraordinary memoir vividly communicates the excitement and reverence he felt at discovering the spectacular natural world of the Sierra. Based on his journal entries for 1869, the text has an immediacy and spontaneity that bring alive the voice and emotions of the young Muir and the humor of his rough-and-tumble adventures as a California shepherd. The book brims with the budding naturalist's detailed observations of the region's flora and fauna as well as his memorable encounters with local characters and the region's Indians.This joyous book is Muir's celebration of the landscape that he came to love passionately - "my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion, when I crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. ""My First Summer in the Sierra" traces the emergence of his conservationist urge as he contrasts the Indians, "who walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds or the squirrels," with the white settlers - blasting roads, building intrusive structures, and altering the landscape. Muir shares his growing determination to preserve this "divine, enduring, unwastable wealth" for future generations.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

For Cape Cod: "In bringing out an illustrated edition of Thoreau’s 1865 classic, the editors have, perhaps inadvertently, set up a competition: Can the writer or the photographer make us see the Cape more vividly? Miller is up to the challenge. The winner is the reader."--Providence Journal

A travel classic by "the most celebrated celebrator of nature in America." -- Commentary

Présentation de l'éditeur

John Muir explores the mountainous wildernesses of California's Sierra Nevada in 1869, expressing the joy, curiosity and sense of purpose of a man discovering his passion and his destiny.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0871567482
• ISBN 13: 9780871567482
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 206
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• Personne responsable: non disponible