From William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
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xiv,[2],262pp. Illustrations and maps. Frontis. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth. Bookplate (Steve Fossett) on front pastedown. Slight wear to extremities. Very good. In a slightly edgeworn dust jacket. Second printing of Farquhar's classic work on the "great snowy range" of California "from Spanish times, through the exploration of American trappers and the struggles of the overland emigrants, to the government surveys and the more intensive exploring and mountaineering of recent times" (dust jacket). Farquhar was an accomplished mountaineer, two-time president of the Sierra Club, and historian and bibliographer of the West. This copy is from the collection of the noted adventurer and collector, Steve Fossett, the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed- wing aircraft. Fossett disappeared in September 2007 during a solo flight over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California. His remains were found in the Sierra Nevada mountains in November 2008. Seller Inventory # WRCAM55555
Bibliographic Details
Title: HISTORY OF THE SIERRA NEVADA
Publisher: University of California Press in collaboration with the Sierra Club, Berkeley and Los Angeles
Publication Date: 1966
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