My First Summer in the Sierra and Selected Essays: A Library of America Paperback Classic (The Libary of America Paperback Classics Series) - Softcover

Muir, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1598531115 ISBN 13: 9781598531114

Publisher: The Library of America, 2011

Synopsis

Describing his spiritual awakening amid the mountains and valleys of central California, John Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra is, like Walden, one of the seminal texts in the literature of the American environment. It is presented here with an introduction by writer and activist Bill McKibben and related essays about Yosemite, the Hetch Hetchy Valley, and other wonders of the Sierra Nevada.

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About the Author

John Muir (1838-1914) was born in Scotland. In 1849 he emigrated with his family to the United States, where he later enrolled in courses in chemistry, geology, and botany at the University of Wisconsin. Muir made extended journeys throughout America, observing both scientifically and enthusiastically the beauties of the wilderness. The Mountains of California, his first book, was published in 1894. He eventually settled in California, where he became an impassioned leader of the forest conservation movement. His writings include Our National Parks (1901), My First Summer in the Sierra (1911), The Yosemite (1912), Travels in Alaska (1915), A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916), and Steep Trails (1918).
Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, and The Age of Missing Information. He is a frequent contributor to such publications as Outside, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books, and a former staff writer at the New Yorker.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Library of America
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1598531115
• ISBN 13: 9781598531114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: McKibben Bill