Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada Paperback - 1997
by Clarence King; Francis P. Farquhar (Editor); Introduction by James M. Shebl
From the rear cover
A bona fide classic, originally published in 1872, Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada is still exciting reading. It describes the perils and pleasures experienced by Clarence King (1842-1901) while conducting the first geological survey of California in the 1860s. His language was equal to the marvels he found, and here with unfading brilliance are his accounts of scaling such mountains as Tyndall, Shasta, and Whitney. The chapters on the Yosemite Valley and surrounding High Sierras were written while he was surveying the boundaries of a newly designated national park. There are also delightful vignettes of western characters, including a Sierra artist and a family of Pike County hog farmers. King, who in 1879 became the first director of the United States Geological Survey, will always be remembered for Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, which was praised by Wallace Stegner, Van Wyck Brooks, and Henry Seidel Canby as a watermark of frontier literature.
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- Title Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
- Author Clarence King; Francis P. Farquhar (Editor); Introduction by James M. Shebl
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Printing, Th
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bison, Lincoln, NE
- Date 1997-03-01
- ISBN 9780803277830 / 0803277830
- Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 7.94 x 5.34 x 0.76 in (20.17 x 13.56 x 1.93 cm)
- Reading level 1430
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Plains
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Library of Congress subjects Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -, Mountaineering - Sierra Nevada (Calif. and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96047072
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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