The Mountains of California

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  • When
  • John
  • Muir
  • traveled
  • to
  • California
  • in
  • 1868,
  • he
  • found
  • the
  • pristine
  • mountain
  • ranges
  • that
  • would
  • inspire
  • his
  • life’s
  • work.
  • The
  • Mountains
  • of
  • California
  • is
  • the
  • culmination
  • of
  • the
  • ten
  • years
  • Muir
  • spent
  • in
  • the
  • Sierra
  • Nevadas,
  • studying
  • every
  • crag,
  • crook,
  • and
  • valley
  • with
  • great
  • care
  • and
  • contemplation.Bill
  • McKibben
  • writes
  • in
  • his
  • Introduction
  • that
  • Muir
  • "invents,
  • by
  • sheer
  • force
  • of
  • his
  • love,
  • an
  • entirely
  • new
  • vocabulary
  • and
  • grammar
  • of
  • the
  • wild
  • .
  • .
  • .
  • a
  • language
  • of
  • ecstasy
  • and
  • exuberance."The
  • Mountains
  • of
  • California
  • is
  • as
  • vibrant
  • and
  • vital
  • today
  • as
  • when
  • it
  • was
  • written
  • over
  • a
  • century
  • ago.This
  • Modern
  • Library
  • Paperback
  • Classic
  • includes
  • the
  • photographs
  • and
  • line
  • drawings
  • from
  • the
  • original
  • 1898 edition.
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