This antiquarian volume contains John Muir s 1911 travel book, "My First Summer in the Sierra." After the American Civil War, John Muir assembled a group of shepherds to drive a large flock of sheep to Yosemite National Park. In 1911 he published this account of the experience, which would encourage many people to visit the Yosemite region and become a seminal piece of environmentalist literature. The contents include: Through the Foothills with a Flock of Sheep, In Camp on the North Fork of the Merced, A Bread Famine, To the High Mountains, The Yosemite, Mount Hoffman and Lake Tenaya, A...
This antiquarian volume contains John Muir s 1911 travel book, "My First Summer in the Sierra." After the American Civil War, John Muir assembled a gr...