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ISBN-10: 0812968654
ISBN-13: 9780812968651
Publisher: Modern Library
Publish Date: 11/11/2003
Dimensions: 8.06" L, 5.22" W, 0.78" H

My First Summer in the Sierra

Introduction by: Mike Davis
Photographer: Herbert W Gleason

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Overview

John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become a famed conservationist when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, not long after the Civil War. He was so captivated by what he saw that he decided to devote his life to the glorification and preservation of this magnificent wilderness. My First Summer in the Sierra, whose heart is the diary Muir kept while tending sheep in Yosemite country, enticed thousands of Americans to visit this magical place, and resounds with Muir’s regard for the “divine, enduring, unwasteable wealth” of the natural world. A classic of environmental literature, My First Summer in the Sierra continues to inspire readers to seek out such places for themselves and make them their own.

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"As more and more of us grow aghast at what we have done to the world we started with, Muir's reverence and devotion will seem keenly germane, and our regret may be transmuted into a fight for the future." –Edward Hoagland
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ISBN-10: 0812968654
ISBN-13: 9780812968651
Publisher: Modern Library
Publish Date: 11/11/2003
Dimensions: 8.06" L, 5.22" W, 0.78" H
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