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The Yosemite

By John Muir
Introduction by Gretel Ehrlich

By John Muir
Introduction by Gretel Ehrlich

By John Muir
Introduction by Gretel Ehrlich

By John Muir
Introduction by Gretel Ehrlich

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Part of Modern Library Classics

Part of Modern Library Classics

Paperback $17.00

Jan 14, 2003 | ISBN 9780812967012

Ebook $2.99

Jul 28, 2010 | ISBN 9780307758507

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    About The Yosemite

    In the spring of 1869, John Muir was looking for means of support to fund his explorations of California’s Central Valley region. A ranch owner offered him a job herding sheep in the Sierra Nevada. As he explored the region, he jotted down his keen observations of the scenic countryside, and he eventually became a guide for some of Yosemite’s most famous visitors, including Ralph Waldo Emerson. Muir documented these experiences in The Yosemite, first published in 1912. It is at once a vivid, accurate description of the land and a passionate homage to nature.

    This Modern Library Paperback Classic is a facsimile of the 1912 edition and includes the original illustrations.

    About The Yosemite

    In the spring of 1869, John Muir was looking for means of support to fund his explorations of California’s Central Valley region. A ranch owner offered him a job herding sheep in the Sierra Nevada. As he explored the region, he jotted down his keen observations of the scenic countryside, and he eventually became a guide for some of Yosemite’s most famous visitors, including Ralph Waldo Emerson. Muir documented these experiences in The Yosemite, first published in 1912. It is at once a vivid, accurate description of the land and a passionate homage to nature.

    This Modern Library Paperback Classic is a facsimile of the 1912 edition and includes the original illustrations.

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    Also by John Muir

    Selected Writings
    The Mountains of California
    My First Summer in the Sierra
    Travels in Alaska
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    Also by John Muir

    Selected Writings
    The Mountains of California
    My First Summer in the Sierra
    Travels in Alaska
    The Mountains of California
    See all books by John Muir

    About John Muir

    JOHN MUIR was born in 1838 in Scotland, and immigrated with his family in 1849 to the United States. In 1892, he and his colleague Robert Underwood Johnson founded the Sierra Club, of which Muir was president until his death; he… More about John Muir

    About John Muir

    JOHN MUIR was born in 1838 in Scotland, and immigrated with his family in 1849 to the United States. In 1892, he and his colleague Robert Underwood Johnson founded the Sierra Club, of which Muir was president until his death; he… More about John Muir

    Product Details

    Category: Science | Nonfiction Classics | Biography & Memoir | Reference

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Jan 14, 2003 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780812967012

    Category: Science | Nonfiction Classics | Biography & Memoir | Reference

    Ebook | $2.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Jul 28, 2010 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780307758507

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    Praise

    “Not only is [Muir] the author to whom all men turn when they think of the Sierras and Northern glaciers . . . but he was also . . . a man able to influence contemporary thought and action on the subjects to which he had devoted his life.” —Theodore Roosevelt

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