Mountaineering Essays

by John Muir

Book Overview

This volume contains eleven mountain essays that include both adventurous narrative, joyful exultation, and descriptive features such as alpine soil beds, ancient and living glaciers, and mountain sculpture. In each, Muir maintains a careful and subtle balance between the physical aspects of ascending and the more symbolic observations of the sublimity of his surroundings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879052414
• ISBN13: 9780879052416
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Peregrine Smith Books
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

this book is the crystal of John Muir's writing

Three books I like best writen by John Muir are 'My First summer in the Sierra', 'The Mountains of California',and 'Travels in Alaska'. Three writings I love best from each book are 'The Tuolumne camp', 'A Near View of the High Sierra', and 'My Sled-trip on the Muir Glacier'. If I carried only this Fleck's edition, I always can read my best three articles. Nevertheless, this edition contains a rare article 'Mountain thoughts', which is my Gospel and essence of John Muir's thought and mind, which you could not find easy in other books except 'John of the Mountains', original thick edition. The introduction written by Fleck is another joy where our human spirit and primal Muir's nature fuse.