![]() ![]() This recording commemorates the 140th anniversary of that first summer. readers, the naturalist John Muir’s My First Summer in the Sierra, a diary of camping and exploration in 1869, is one of the classics of American geographic writing. Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club (1892), a conservationist group concerned with the preservation of the scenic resources of the. Muir spent the rest of his life working to preserve the high Sierra, believing that “the clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” John Muir (1838-1914) was born in Dunbar, Scotland and grew up in Wisconsin, USA. readers, the naturalist John Muir’s My First Summer in the Sierra, a diary of camping and exploration in 1869, is one of the classics of American geographic writing. The antics of the smallest “insect people” amazed him as much as stunted thousand-year old Juniper trees growing with inconceivable tenacity from tiny cracks in the stone. From French Bar to Mono Lake and the Yosemite Valley, Muir was awestruck by everything he saw. The journal of nature-lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California’s Sierra Nevada range. Download cover art Download CD case insert My First Summer in the Sierra ![]()
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