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An obvious lover of all nature, a keen observer and a dynamic writer, descriptive, detailed and as near to nature as you can get without being there in person.

WOW! Muir blew me away! As a nature watcher and hiker, hiking for the love of seeing and being in nature, loving the details of nature,this author finally fulfilled my idea of description and detail and love of all the beauty,in a written form. I felt transported to this time and place, he painted pictures with his wonderful descriptions that brought me to hear the wind in the pines, feel the rain dripping off me in the wild rainstorms. Feel the exhiliration rounding a canon corner or popping over a peak and there beholding a view before me that takes away the breath and floods you with such an overwhelming amount of beauty that you scarce can take it in.
When he describes the sequioa I felt compelled to sit down right there and observe the giants,drink that forest in, contemplate, go over the bark, the heigth, the forest floor, the moss, the ferns, the sky, the sounds, and smells, until you feel full and have taken it fully in.
Which is exactly what I have done when I was among them myself. But Muir's writing took me right to that feeling with his beautiful writing alone.

His description and obvious love of the water-ouzel (birds) felt like my own experience that I have never had in near the depth that he experienced it.
This writing is a treasure and should be preserved for all times for all to read, all who cannot go to nature can almost literally bring nature to themselves;the writing and detail is that supurb.
Granted he does talk at length about some things in nature that are not of a great as interest to me , for me it was the mountain sheep, I hold very little interest in these fellows of the mountains, Muir's writing is so concise and organized, all I had to do was skip over this part to the next part that was of interst to me.
If you adore nature and being in it, or if you adore nature and cannot be in it for some reason, this book is for you! If you are encouraging an interest in nature in your children or studying how the glaciers went through an area and carved out the land, then what happens over time because of the changes the glaciers started, this book is an excellent source of how and what. Amazing, an Icon of Nature Writing for all Times.


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The Mountains of California John Muir 9780871566638 Books Reviews

Muir's writing is delicious. A step back in time on many levels, as deep as the birthing of the mountains themselves. However the illustrations in this edition are of very poor quality, really a shame. I am sure the original drawings and photos were beautiful.
Beautifully written book for those who love John Muir and California as I do.
A worthy follow-up to "My First Summer In The Sierras". No one has ever written with the passionate
enthusiasm of John Muir in describing the grandeur of California's iconic mountain range.
This seems like some sort of ersatz version of the original the overall quality is poor. The typography and layout (spacing, size) are difficult to read; and the table of contents does not include chapter titles. This seems like an indie version of the true book I'm assuming that John Muir's words are in fact the original words, but I can't recommend this physical print.
This is a really nice collection of John Muir writings. I do a fair amount of backpacking in the Sierras and its great to read these descriptions of some of the places I'm familiar with from someone like Muir.
John Muir is a superlative writer and this book is about a place (the California Sierra Nevada) near and dear to my heart, so I enjoyed this book. However, I would have really liked to have had a forward or preface that gave more context to the writings, e.g. some short biographical data or background about John Muir's life and the relative time frame during which he wrote these essays. There is nothing of this nature; page 1 starts with Muir's words. In addition, he goes into sometimes excruciating detail about his experiences in the sierras, down to minutia about rock formations and such. If this isn't of particular interest to certain readers, I imagine some sections could drag for them.
The writing and stories are great. But in this paperback version there are no pictures or sketches that go with the stories.....just the caption. I see earlier reviews commenting they were poor quality, in the book I got, there are none!!! The font is also very small, quite an eye test. So by all means get The Mountains of California, just not this version.
An obvious lover of all nature, a keen observer and a dynamic writer, descriptive, detailed and as near to nature as you can get without being there in person.

WOW! Muir blew me away! As a nature watcher and hiker, hiking for the love of seeing and being in nature, loving the details of nature,this author finally fulfilled my idea of description and detail and love of all the beauty,in a written form. I felt transported to this time and place, he painted pictures with his wonderful descriptions that brought me to hear the wind in the pines, feel the rain dripping off me in the wild rainstorms. Feel the exhiliration rounding a canon corner or popping over a peak and there beholding a view before me that takes away the breath and floods you with such an overwhelming amount of beauty that you scarce can take it in.
When he describes the sequioa I felt compelled to sit down right there and observe the giants,drink that forest in, contemplate, go over the bark, the heigth, the forest floor, the moss, the ferns, the sky, the sounds, and smells, until you feel full and have taken it fully in.
Which is exactly what I have done when I was among them myself. But Muir's writing took me right to that feeling with his beautiful writing alone.

His description and obvious love of the water-ouzel (birds) felt like my own experience that I have never had in near the depth that he experienced it.
This writing is a treasure and should be preserved for all times for all to read, all who cannot go to nature can almost literally bring nature to themselves;the writing and detail is that supurb.
Granted he does talk at length about some things in nature that are not of a great as interest to me , for me it was the mountain sheep, I hold very little interest in these fellows of the mountains, Muir's writing is so concise and organized, all I had to do was skip over this part to the next part that was of interst to me.
If you adore nature and being in it, or if you adore nature and cannot be in it for some reason, this book is for you! If you are encouraging an interest in nature in your children or studying how the glaciers went through an area and carved out the land, then what happens over time because of the changes the glaciers started, this book is an excellent source of how and what. Amazing, an Icon of Nature Writing for all Times.