Author: Thomas Starr King
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
"Soon after his arrival in California from Boston during 1860, King joined a small group of friends for an excursion to Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove. On his return he described the trip in a seies of eight letters to the 'Boston Evening Transcript'. These communications, never before reprinted in their entirety, form the body of 'A Vacation among the Sierras'--Book prospectus.
A Vacation Among the Sierras
Author: Thomas Starr King
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
"Soon after his arrival in California from Boston during 1860, King joined a small group of friends for an excursion to Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove. On his return he described the trip in a seies of eight letters to the 'Boston Evening Transcript'. These communications, never before reprinted in their entirety, form the body of 'A Vacation among the Sierras'--Book prospectus.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
"Soon after his arrival in California from Boston during 1860, King joined a small group of friends for an excursion to Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove. On his return he described the trip in a seies of eight letters to the 'Boston Evening Transcript'. These communications, never before reprinted in their entirety, form the body of 'A Vacation among the Sierras'--Book prospectus.
The Sierra High Route
Author: Steve Roper
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9780898865066
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
No ordinary guidebook, Sierra High Route leads you from point to point through a spectacular 195-mile timberline route in California's High Sierra. The route follows a general direction but no particular trail, thus causing little or no impact and allowing hikers to experience the beautiful sub-alpine region of the High Sierra in a unique way.
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9780898865066
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
No ordinary guidebook, Sierra High Route leads you from point to point through a spectacular 195-mile timberline route in California's High Sierra. The route follows a general direction but no particular trail, thus causing little or no impact and allowing hikers to experience the beautiful sub-alpine region of the High Sierra in a unique way.
Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada
Author: John Muir
Publisher: Boston, Houghton
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: Boston, Houghton
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Shadowshaper (The Shadowshaper Cypher, Book 1)
Author: Daniel José Older
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545591627
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"Magnificent." -- Holly Black, New York Times Book Review Come to the crossroads, to the crossroads comeSierra Santiago planned an easy summer of making art and hanging with her friends. But then a corpse crashes the first party of the season. Her stroke-ridden grandfather starts apologizing over and over. And when the murals in her neighborhood begin to weep real tears . . . Well, something more sinister than the usual Brooklyn ruckus is going on.Where the powers converge and become oneWith the help of a fellow artist named Robbie, Sierra discovers shadowshaping, a thrilling magic that infuses ancestral spirits into paintings, music, and stories. But someone is killing the shadowshapers one by one -- and the killer believes Sierra is hiding their greatest secret. Now she must unravel her family's past, take down the killer in the present, and save the future of shadowshaping for herself and generations to come.Full of a joyful, defiant spirit and writing as luscious as a Brooklyn summer night, Shadowshaper introduces a fantasy heroine and magic unlike any you've ever seen before, and marks the YA debut of a brilliant new storyteller.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545591627
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"Magnificent." -- Holly Black, New York Times Book Review Come to the crossroads, to the crossroads comeSierra Santiago planned an easy summer of making art and hanging with her friends. But then a corpse crashes the first party of the season. Her stroke-ridden grandfather starts apologizing over and over. And when the murals in her neighborhood begin to weep real tears . . . Well, something more sinister than the usual Brooklyn ruckus is going on.Where the powers converge and become oneWith the help of a fellow artist named Robbie, Sierra discovers shadowshaping, a thrilling magic that infuses ancestral spirits into paintings, music, and stories. But someone is killing the shadowshapers one by one -- and the killer believes Sierra is hiding their greatest secret. Now she must unravel her family's past, take down the killer in the present, and save the future of shadowshaping for herself and generations to come.Full of a joyful, defiant spirit and writing as luscious as a Brooklyn summer night, Shadowshaper introduces a fantasy heroine and magic unlike any you've ever seen before, and marks the YA debut of a brilliant new storyteller.
In the Heart of the Sierras
Author: James Mason Hutchings
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photographs
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photographs
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Ansel Adams
Author: Anne Hammond
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300092417
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Despite his significance, little scholarly attention has been paid to Adams's contributions as an artist or his place in photographic history. This handsome book addresses this gap by looking beyond his reputation as a Sierra Club environmentalist and examining in depth his life as an artist, and the complexities of his creative vision. 80 illustrations.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300092417
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Despite his significance, little scholarly attention has been paid to Adams's contributions as an artist or his place in photographic history. This handsome book addresses this gap by looking beyond his reputation as a Sierra Club environmentalist and examining in depth his life as an artist, and the complexities of his creative vision. 80 illustrations.
Hot Showers, Soft Beds, and Dayhikes in the Sierra
Author: Kathy Morey
Publisher: Wilderness Press
ISBN: 0899975569
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
With this book in hand, hikers can spend their days wandering in wildflower meadows, hiking to cragged peaks, or swimming in cobalt-blue lakes in the Sierra Nevada, and then settle into a deck chair at sunset to enjoy the alpenglow. Hot Showers, Soft Beds, & Dayhikes in the Sierra describes 112 carefully chosen dayhikes in Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks, John Muir, Ansel Adams, Desolation, and Emigrant wilderness areas, and more. Many hikes have easy-through-strenuous options, and every hike listed is in close proximity to one or more quality accommodations (over 80 cabins, B&Bs, motels, lodges, guest ranches, and resorts are described).
Publisher: Wilderness Press
ISBN: 0899975569
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
With this book in hand, hikers can spend their days wandering in wildflower meadows, hiking to cragged peaks, or swimming in cobalt-blue lakes in the Sierra Nevada, and then settle into a deck chair at sunset to enjoy the alpenglow. Hot Showers, Soft Beds, & Dayhikes in the Sierra describes 112 carefully chosen dayhikes in Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks, John Muir, Ansel Adams, Desolation, and Emigrant wilderness areas, and more. Many hikes have easy-through-strenuous options, and every hike listed is in close proximity to one or more quality accommodations (over 80 cabins, B&Bs, motels, lodges, guest ranches, and resorts are described).
The Mountains of California
Author: John Muir
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Famed naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) came to Wisconsin as a boy and studied at the University of Wisconsin. He first came to California in 1868 and devoted six years to the study of the Yosemite Valley. After work in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, he returned to California in 1880 and made the state his home. One of the heroes of America's conservation movement, Muir deserves much of the credit for making the Yosemite Valley a protected national park and for alerting Americans to the need to protect this and other natural wonders. The mountains of California (1894) is his book length tribute to the beauties of the Sierras. He recounts not only his own journeys by foot through the mountains, glaciers, forests, and valleys, but also the geological and natural history of the region, ranging from the history of glaciers, the patterns of tree growth, and the daily life of animals and insects. While Yosemite naturally receives great attention, Muir also expounds on less well known beauty spots.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Famed naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) came to Wisconsin as a boy and studied at the University of Wisconsin. He first came to California in 1868 and devoted six years to the study of the Yosemite Valley. After work in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, he returned to California in 1880 and made the state his home. One of the heroes of America's conservation movement, Muir deserves much of the credit for making the Yosemite Valley a protected national park and for alerting Americans to the need to protect this and other natural wonders. The mountains of California (1894) is his book length tribute to the beauties of the Sierras. He recounts not only his own journeys by foot through the mountains, glaciers, forests, and valleys, but also the geological and natural history of the region, ranging from the history of glaciers, the patterns of tree growth, and the daily life of animals and insects. While Yosemite naturally receives great attention, Muir also expounds on less well known beauty spots.
Geologic Trips Sierra Nevada
Author: Ted Konigsmark
Publisher: Bored Feet Publications
ISBN: 9780966131659
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Bored Feet Publications
ISBN: 9780966131659
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tales Along El Camino Sierra
Author: David Woodruff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692680735
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Little known and interesting true stories from California's favorite Highway-395.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692680735
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Little known and interesting true stories from California's favorite Highway-395.