Mountains of California

John Muir’s ebullient spirit and love of nature infuse these accounts of visiting Yosemite Valley, Kings Canyon, sequoia groves, and Mount Whitney. Blending keen observations of flora, geography, and geology, the natural forces that shape the landscape, and the changing seasons, Muir paints a timeless portrait of the wilderness he called “the Range of Light, the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I have ever seen.” Also included are visits to two famous Cascades peaks, Mount Shasta and Mount St. Helens

John Burroughs

Mr. Muir is a nature-lover of a fine type, one of the best the country has produced.

John Muir (1838-1914) immigrated with his family to the United States in 1849. He settled in California, where he became a leader of the forest conservation movement and was inducted into the Ecology Hall of Fame.
Edward Hoagland has written more than twenty books.