About this title: This classic of nature writing chronicles John Muir's first contact with the Sierra Nevada, in June 1869. Hired as a shepherd, Muir became fascinated by the terrain of foliage, wildlife, rivers, and streams. Forty years later, he made his notes into this book about the place he loved most. Illustrated with Muir's drawings.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780140255706ISBN:0140255702
Description: Acceptable. A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (the dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780140255706ISBN:0140255702
Description: Good. Used item may show library stamps, stickers and marks. Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780395285213ISBN:0395285216
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Book is clean and tight but has water stain on bottom corner of book. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 271 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Pages are tanning. Has some general wear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Contains: Illustrations. Penguin Nature Classics. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780140170016ISBN:0140170014
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 290 p. Penguin Nature Library. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780395285213ISBN:0395285216
Description: Illustrated. Trade Size. USED LIKE NEW fine-/no dj issued, very minor edgerubbing to clean covers, interior clean and solid and bright throughout, looks unread. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780395285213ISBN:0395285216
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice clean copy with minor wear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 271 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. 0395285216 Good condition, pages are flat, clean, with no markings, cover has edgewear and rubbing, small crease on back page. Paperback. read more
Description: Very Good- As issued No Jacket. Spine lean, corner bumps, pages badly age toned(for a book of this age), page edges unvevenly age toned(top edge and about the top 20% of the right edge are substantially darker that the rest of the page edges), and other light shopwear. read more
Edition: Rept (1970s? )
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston
Date Published: 1911, 1944
ISBN-13:9780395285213ISBN:0395285216
Description: Photos, Drawings. Good Cond, tea stain to edge text. 5x8" Paper Covers 272pg in the summer of 1869, Muir was a Sheperd in Yosemite Valley. This is his Journal. Indexed. read more
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Edition Not Stated. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. In the Summer of 1869, John Muir made his first long trip to Yosemite, When a friend offered him the chance to accompany his flock os sheep and a shepherd to the high pastures of the Sierra, it was an opportunity that Muir could not resist. This book is the journal he kept on those summer days, of the wildlife, the plant life, and of his explorations inot the magical places of the ... read more
"This is such a poetic ode to nature. I'm continually amazed by how far ahead of his time John Muir was. His ideas about environmental conservation and animal rights would still be considered radical by many people's standards even today! But what I really don't understand is how he could hike around the sierras for days on end, surviving on just bread and water! He was something else ..."
"This I suppose was my first book by a naturalist and I enjoyed it. Detailing his own trip to Yosemite as a sheep herder during the summer of 1869, the book is a celebration of Yosemite. I felt a little envy for his unabashed use of exclamation points throughout. He's truly excited--wandering the meadows, climbing the domes, describing plant and animal life, drinking "champagne" water--and isn't restrained in showing it. The enthusiasm is palpable and I was glad to be reading it while in Yosemite exactly 140 years after he recorded his extended stay there...some quotes:
"Never before had I seen so glorious a landscape, so boundless an affluence of sublime mountain beauty. The most extravagent description I might give of this view to any one who has not seen similar landscapes with his own eyes would not so much as hint its grandeur and the spiritual glow that covered it."
"Toward sunset, enjoyed a fine run to camp...enjoying wild excitement and excess of strength, and so ends a day that will never end."
"No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself."
"August 10. Another of those charming exhilarating days that make the blood dance""
"I gave this book to my father-in-law one year for Christmas. This was a gift to a man who wanted for nothing and lacked nothing in the material or spiritual world. A few months later, he said, "I read that book you gave me. Thank you." I then read it myself, and cherished it if only for the gratitude that it invoked.
Muir & my father-in-law were two of a kind: calm, quiet, observing, grateful, and above complaint."
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