![]() This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is a prominent American conservation organization. The Project Gutenberg eBook of My First Summer in the Sierra, by John Muir. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. ![]() His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. John Muir (1838 - 1914) was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. Summer in the Sierra (1911) John Muir 's third book, My First Summer in the Sierra, was pub-lished in 1911, when Muir was 73 years old. He lived in the cabin for two years, and wrote about this period in his book My First Summer in the Sierra. He climbed a number of mountains, including Cathedral Peak and Mount Dana, and hiked the old Indian trail down Bloody Canyon to Mono Lake. Seeing it for the first time, Muir noted that He was overwhelmed by the landscape, scrambling down steep cliff faces to get a closer look at the waterfalls, whooping and howling at the vistas, jumping tirelessly from flower to flower. ![]() ![]() Book Synopsis When he came to California and finally settled in San Francisco, John Muir immediately left for a visit to Yosemite, a place he had only read about. My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir 6,171 ratings, 4. ![]()
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