Gentle Wilderness: The Sierra Nevada

ISBN-10
0884861252
ISBN-13
9780884861256
Category
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Pages
167
Language
English
Published
1995-09-01
Publisher
BBS Publishing Corporation
Author
John Muir

Description

Nearly a century after John Muir's personal account of the Sierra Nevada, Richard Kauffman has come along with a color camera to recapture the feeling of discovery and the vividness in what Muir called the Range of Light.

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