My first summer in the Sierra / Muir, John

A summer journal by the founder of the Sierra Club reveals the multifaceted complexion of Yosemite as viewed by a pioneer naturalist in 1869.

Presents the journal of naturalist John Muir in which he records his thoughts and experiences in the Sierra Mountains where he went for the first time in 1869 while working as an overseer hired on to help move a band of sheep to summer pasture.