Wild Yosemite: Personal Accounts of Adventure, Discovery, and Nature

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This beautifulliterarycollection explores the spectacular natural features of Yosemite through the eyes of someof the mostextraordinarily talented writers.In 1851, Lafayette Bunnell chronicled his travels with the Mariposa Battalion, the first non-natives to visit Yosemite Valley. Following in his footsteps, Theodore Roosevelt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Clarence King, Frederick Law Olmsted, Joaquin Miller, and Horace Greeley made their pilgrimages and were moved to recount their observations. Included here as well is the work of John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, whose love for Yosemite led to the establishment of Yosemite National Park in 1890.This lyrical book is a tribute to Yosemites gorgeous landscape and will be a joy to everyone who loves this special piece of America.

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Susan M. Neider is a Princeton-educated chemist and educator, award-winning landscape photographer, and a lifelong student of America's National Parks and wild places. She is the author of Color Country: Touring the Colorado Plateau and High Country: Touring the Colorado Rockies. She splits her time between Princeton, New Jersey, and Boulder, Colorado.

Bruce Hamilton is the Deputy Executive Director of the Sierra Club.