John Muir THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA 1894 1st ED Yosemite National Park RARE

John Muir THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA 1894 1st ED Yosemite National Park RARE

Note this is ex libris, thus the price has been significantly discounted compared to other first edition copies of this book, which have sold for 1,000+

Famed naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) came to Wisconsin as a boy and studied at the University of Wisconsin. He first came to California in 1868 and devoted six years to the study of the Yosemite Valley. After work in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, he returned to California in 1880 and made the state his home.

One of the heroes of America's conservation movement, Muir deserves much of the credit for making the Yosemite Valley a protected national park and for alerting Americans to the need to protect this and other natural wonders. The Mountains of California (1894) is his book length tribute to the beauties of the Sierra. He recounts not only his own journeys by foot through the mountains, glaciers, forests, and valleys, but also the geology.