Steep Trails Illustrated
Download and Read Steep Trails Illustrated full books in PDF, ePUB, and Kindle. Read online free Steep Trails Illustrated ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Steep Trails
Author | : John Muir |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2016-11-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781539909200 |
Download Steep Trails Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Steep Trails; California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon by John Muir. The papers brought together in this book have, in a general way, been arranged in chronological sequence. They span a period of twenty-nine years of Muir's life, during which they appeared as letters and articles, for the most part in publications of limited and local circulation. The Utah and Nevada sketches, and the two San Gabriel papers, were contributed, in the form of letters, to the San Francisco Evening Bulletin toward the end of the seventies. Written in the field, they preserve the freshness of the author's first impressions of those regions. Much of the material in the chapters on Mount Shasta first took similar shape in 1874. Subsequently it was expanded for inclusion in Picturesque California, and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains, which Muir began to edit in 1888. In the same work appeared the description of Washington and Oregon. The charming little essay "Wild Wool" was written for the Overland Monthly in 1875. "A Geologist's Winter Walk" is an extract from a letter to a friend, who, appreciating its fine literary quality, took the responsibility of sending it to the Overland Monthly without the author's knowledge. The concluding chapter on "The Grand Canyon of the Colorado" was published in the Century Magazine in 1902, and exhibits Muir's powers of description at their maturity. John Muir (1838-1914) also known as "John of the Mountains," was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.
Steep Trails Related Books
Pages: 130
Pages: 176
Pages: 284
Pages: 409
Pages: 0