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The Mountains of California
Intends to put a conservationist's passion for nature in relief. This title celebrates the Sierra Nevada, which the author dedicated his life to saving, and recounts his visits to Yosemite Valley, Kings Canyon, Sequoia Groves, and Mount Whiskey.
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My First Summer in the Sierra (Cram Edition)
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The Yosemite
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My First Summer in the Sierra
In the summer of 1869, Scottish-American naturalist and author John Muir spent the months of June through September in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California accompanying a group of shepherds while they led a flock of sheep to the high country to graze. During that time, Muir took every opportunity to explore the Yosemite area extensively-hiking, camping, writing, and sketching. Muir's diary entries describing the land, flora, and fauna he encountered became the basis for the book My First Summer in the Sierra, first published in 1911.Muir's journal entries from that summer reveal his growing wonder and awe at the Yosemite landscape, as well as his endless curiosity for the natural world. On a grand scale, he trekked into remote areas for sometimes days at a time. He climbed Cathedral Peak and Mount Dana and trekked through Bloody Canyon to Mono Lake. On a more modest scale, Muir observed the flora and fauna that surrounded him with the keen enthusiasm of a naturalist. He described in detail the area's trees, shrubs, flowers, mountain meadows, glacial features, and animals.In the years that followed the publication of My First Summer in the Sierra, Muir went on to advocate for the protection and preservation of wild landscapes. In 1892, Muir co-founded the Sierra Club and became the organization's first president. Muir also played an instrumental role in the establishment of several national parks including Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon.My First Summer in the Sierra remains among John Muir's most popular works. The book's inspired and lyrical accounts of an iconic wilderness, written at a time in Muir's life when his character as a naturalist and wilderness advocate was taking form, earns it a prominent, influential place in the annals of nature writing and the history of wilderness preservation.
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My First Summer in the Sierra
My First Summer in the Sierra recounts John Muir's 1869 journey as an assistant shepherd through California's Sierra Nevada, transforming a seasonal expedition into a luminous record of ecological perception. Combining diary, travel narrative, natural history, and spiritual meditation, the book observes glaciers, forests, flowers, weather, and animal life with exacting attention and rapturous prose. In the context of nineteenth-century American nature writing, it stands beside Thoreau while anticipating modern environmental consciousness. Muir, born in Scotland in 1838 and raised in Wisconsin, brought to the Sierra a mind shaped by mechanical ingenuity, botanical curiosity, and a profound resistance to industrialized forms of life. His earlier wanderings and self-education prepared him to see wilderness not as vacant scenery but as a living, interdependent order. The experiences recorded here helped form the convictions that later made him a leading preservationist and cofounder of the Sierra Club. This book is recommended to readers of environmental literature, American Romanticism, and conservation history. It offers not merely picturesque description, but a disciplined vision of wonder-an invitation to read landscape ethically, attentively, and with enduring humility.
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My California - Collected Works
My California - Collected Works gathers John Muir's luminous writings on the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite, sequoia groves, glaciers, storms, rivers, and the intricate life of the American West. Combining natural history, travel narrative, spiritual autobiography, and prose-poetry, Muir writes with scientific attentiveness and prophetic ardor. His style belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of nature writing shaped by Romanticism and Transcendentalism, yet it also anticipates modern environmental literature through its insistence that wild places possess value beyond human utility. Born in Scotland in 1838 and raised in Wisconsin, Muir became a wanderer, inventor, botanist, mountaineer, and eventually one of America's most influential conservationists. His long residence in California, especially his repeated explorations of Yosemite and the High Sierra, gave him both intimate knowledge and moral urgency. These works arise from direct observation, physical hardship, and a conviction that wilderness could enlarge the soul while demanding public protection. This collection is highly recommended for readers of environmental history, American literature, conservation thought, and lyrical nonfiction. It offers not merely descriptions of California's landscapes, but a foundational vision of ecological reverence.
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The Mountains of California
In The Mountains of California, John Muir offers a richly observed account of the Sierra Nevada, blending natural history, travel narrative, spiritual reflection, and lyrical prose. First published in 1894, the book situates itself within nineteenth-century American nature writing, yet surpasses mere description through its ecstatic attention to glaciers, forests, storms, wildflowers, and animal life. Muir's style is at once scientific and visionary, transforming mountain landscapes into living presences and making ecological interdependence palpable. Muir's authority arises from years of intimate exploration in California's high country, where he worked, wandered, studied geology and botany, and developed the conservationist convictions that would shape American environmental thought. A Scottish-born immigrant and self-taught naturalist, he brought to the Sierra both empirical curiosity and a profound reverence for wilderness. His experiences among glaciers, sequoias, and alpine meadows directly inform the book's precision, urgency, and moral force. This volume is essential for readers interested in environmental literature, American Romanticism, conservation history, or the imaginative power of close observation. It rewards both scholarly study and contemplative reading, inviting us to see mountains not as scenery, but as dynamic, sacred, and vulnerable worlds.
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The Mountains of California (With All Original Illustrations)
The Mountains of California is John Muir's classic 1894 celebration of the Sierra Nevada, a work in which natural history, spiritual reflection, and exploratory narrative merge into a foundational text of American environmental writing. Moving from glaciers, forests, rivers, storms, and mountain meadows to the lives of trees, birds, and wild sheep, Muir writes with scientific attentiveness and lyric intensity. The inclusion of the original illustrations preserves the book's nineteenth-century documentary character and deepens its place within the literature of wilderness, Romantic naturalism, and early conservation thought. Muir, the Scottish-born naturalist, explorer, and advocate later central to the founding of the Sierra Club, wrote from years of intimate experience in California's high country. His wanderings through Yosemite and the Sierra shaped both his ecological understanding and his belief that wild landscapes possessed moral and spiritual value. The book reflects not distant observation but a life lived in direct companionship with mountains, weather, plants, and animals. This volume is recommended for readers of nature writing, environmental history, American literature, and conservation. It rewards anyone seeking not merely description of scenery, but a passionate argument for reverence toward the living earth.
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The Mountains of California
John Muir's The Mountains of California is both a foundational work of American nature writing and a lyrical geological, botanical, and spiritual portrait of the Sierra Nevada. Combining close scientific observation with rhapsodic prose, Muir describes glaciers, forests, storms, rivers, wildflowers, and animal life as parts of a vast, living order. Published in the late nineteenth-century context of exploration, conservation, and Romantic natural history, the book transforms landscape description into moral and aesthetic revelation. Muir, the Scottish-born naturalist, mountaineer, and later founder of the Sierra Club, wrote from years of intimate experience in the Californian wilderness. His work as a shepherd, explorer, amateur geologist, and tireless walker shaped the book's authority: he knew the mountains not as scenery but as habitat, sanctuary, and teacher. His advocacy for Yosemite and other wild places informs every page, giving his prose an urgency that is ecological as well as devotional. This book is highly recommended for readers of environmental literature, American history, and poetic nonfiction. It offers not merely a record of mountains, but a vision of how attention to the natural world can enlarge scientific understanding, ethical responsibility, and the human spirit.
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Syllabus Of A Course Of Twelve Lectures On Plant Forms And Plant Functions
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Syllabus Of A Course Of Twelve Lectures On Plant Forms And Plant Functions
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Le montagne mi chiamano. Meditazioni sulla natura selvaggia
"Le montagne mi chiamano" è una selezione di citazioni dai diari, i libri e le lettere di John Muir, scienziato, alpinista, inventore, "padre" dei parchi naturali e tra i più importanti naturalisti del suo tempo. Dai semplici aforismi alle dettagliate descrizioni delle sue peregrinazioni, gli oltre duecento passaggi qui raccolti - moltissimi dei quali inediti - tracciano la vita di Muir come una sorta di biografia, restituendo al contempo l'essenza del suo pensiero e del suo amore smisurato per il mondo naturale. Dall'approdo nel Nuovo Mondo poco più che bambino - il suo 'battesimo nella pura natura selvaggia' - all'illuminazione e alla comunione spirituale con le montagne dello Yosemite, fino alle battaglie per la tutela della wilderness: in queste citazioni il lettore ritroverà lo scrittore, il visionario, il mistico della natura che ha cambiato per sempre il modo in cui gli uomini moderni guardano e si rapportano all'ambiente. Che si tratti di descrivere una goccia di rugiada, un'ombra proiettata su una roccia, un terremoto che scuote le pareti di Yosemite o una tempesta di vento a cui assiste arrampicato in cima a una sequoia, lo sguardo di Muir è sempre teso a rintracciare l'unico 'palinsesto della natura', quello in cui ogni cosa - grande o piccola - partecipa di una sola unità, di una sola armonia, di una sola bellezza.
€ 26,50