Yosemite Falls: Reckoning with California History and the Gospel of John Muir

From a cult-favorite nature writer, a memoir of climbing, California, and the double-sided coin of legacy and preservation.

In Daniel Duane’s childhood, John Muir was apostle and prophet, the man who taught Californians to love nature. Duane's family worshipped in the Muir way by backpacking, skiing, and climbing. They read the scripture, too, from Muir's earnest essays to the memoirs of the charismatic geologist Clarence King to classic accounts of Indigenous California. Paradise, for Duan...