The Yosemite

Fantastic! Recommend reading prior to visiting.

Beautiful, descriptive passages that anyone who has experienced Yosemite can immediately relate to. Loved it!

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.

But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life.” p. 8

Dark green cloth board with gilt, royal blue & periwinkle pictorial front illustration, gilt stamped spine lettering. 8vo. [6], vii-x, [2], 3-284 pp. Top edge gilt, rough cut bottom and side. Illustrated with 31 black & white photographs primarily by The Pillsbury Co., and 3 foldout maps. Date on title page indicating first print. Original owner’s signature neatly inked to front pastedown. Cover illustration bright gilt, tight, square, hinges firm, clean. A partial split to rear paper pastedown only, not hinge. Age toning from tissue onto frontispiece, typical with original condition, minor split to top spine edge, light show more shelf wear and rubbing.
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