THE ATHENAEUMThe Mountains of CaliforniaJohn Muir
Natural History
The Mountains of California
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textJohn Muir’s first book, of 1894, on the Sierra Nevada he had walked for more than twenty years: its glaciers, passes, forests, wild gardens and water-ouzels. In one chapter he climbs a tall Douglas spruce in a gale to hear the forest from the top, and clings there for hours, swinging. Muir had helped to found the Sierra Club two years before, and was its first president.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 6 hr 10 min
- Where to find it
- The Mountain in the Painting
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #10012. In the public domain in the United States.