My First Summer in the Sierra

by John Muir

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781006324819
Publisher:	Blurb
Publication date:	11/05/2021
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

John Muir (1838-1914) was one of the most influential conservationists and nature writers in American history. He was instrumental in the creation and passage of the National Parks Act, and founder of the Sierra Club, acting as its president until his death. Muir was a spirit so free that all he did to prepare for an expedition was to "throw some tea and bread into an old sack and jump the back fence." 

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Table of Contents

	Biographical Note	v
	Illustrations	xiii
	Introduction	xv
	A Note on the Text	xxix
	My First Summer in the Sierra	3

What People are Saying About This

Bill McKibben

When we consider John Muir, we consider one of the small handful of Americans who truly changed the world.

Editorial Reviews

A travel classic by "the most celebrated celebrator of nature in America." — Commentary —

From the Publisher

Muir was a geologist, an explorer, philosopher, artist, author, and editor, and to each of his avocations he devoted that deep insight and conscientious devotion which made him its master

New York Times

An inspirational figure for modern environmentalism . . . his enthusiasm and heart-felt love of nature is immensely impressive. Thankfully the wilderness blooms again in Muir's evocative prose

Guardian

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

Muir's prose is a miracle of immediacy. His books are illuminated by sunshine and starlight. The cold mineral air of the mountains and the resiny reek of coniferous forests lift bracingly off his pages. No other writer is so ceaselessly astonished by the natural world as Muir, or communicates that astonishment more urgently. Muir lived "in an infinite storm of beauty", and his readers live in it with him

Robert Macfarlane

The great mountain man . . . [John Muir] remains a towering presence in American cultural life, and is internationally acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of modern conservation

Mark Cocker

The richness of Muir's writing roots deeper into the terrain than any other wilderness writer known to me

Los Angeles Times

"When we consider John Muir, we consider one of the small handful of Americans who truly changed the world."

Bill McKibben