The Yosemite, John Muir
The Yosemite, John Muir
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The Yosemite

Author: John Muir

Narrator: Don Gentry

Unabridged: 5 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/02/2020

Synopsis

John Muir (1838 – 1914) was an influential naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, and advocate for the preservation of wilderness areas in the United States. In 1869, Muir travelled to California and spent a long time in the area that is now the Yosemite National Park. This narrative takes the form of a hiking guide filled with adventure. Muir was a master of description, providing stirring portraits of the area’s wildlife, waterfalls, valleys, meadows, giant sequoias groves, lakes, mountains, , and glaciers. About Yosemite Falls, he writes, “At the top of the fall they seem to burst forth in irregular spurts from some grand, throbbing mountain heart.”

About John Muir

John Muir (1838 - 1914), known as both John of the Mountains and The Father of the National Parks, was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books, which tell of his adventures in nature, have been read by millions. His activism, including founding The Sierra Club, has helped to preserve natural areas such as the Yosemite Valley and Sequoia National Park.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Becky on August 28, 2014

I think John Muir has got to be one of my top 5 favorite humans of all time. The guy was seriously one of a kind. This fact became evident within the first few pages of "The Yosemite," which I decided to read in advance of my first trip to Yosemite National Park this weekend. John Muir is basically......more

Goodreads review by heidi on May 09, 2014

Reading “The Yosemite” was my first experience reading John Muir’s prose. His descriptions are amazing. I read most of the book on a backpacking trip in Yosemite, and I cherish this opportunity to read Muir’s descriptions of the very place I was visiting. Muir’s words are oft quoted, and now I under......more

Goodreads review by Donna on July 09, 2008

I just returned from Yosemite, a gift to the world from the venerable John Muir, who managed to have it preserved for posterity (although he failed in his attempt to save a neighboring valley, the Hetch Hetchy, now submerged beneath a reservoir). The Yosemite allowed me to better understand some of......more

Goodreads review by Emma on June 27, 2023

I’d recommend this book to anyone who recently moved to Yosemite and started a cartographic technician job working for the park......more

Goodreads review by Onceinabluemoon on January 09, 2021

Its been since my youth that I read john Muir, listened to the audio while working my garden and loved memory lane. I grew up at Tahoe and he discusses the sugar pines, since I was little I knew where to find them around the Lake, the book was very nostalgic for me. I was surprised how florific his w......more

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