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Basey's Sierra Nevada Textbook
Basey's Sierra Nevada Textbook
Sierra Nevada Natural History
Author: Tracy Irwin Storer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 620
ISBN-13: 9780520240964
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawings and color plates accompany the over 750 scientifically accurate, but easy-to-understand descriptions in this guide to the plants, animals, climate, geology, physical features and human influence in the Sierra Nevada.
Basey's Sierra Nevada Journal
Sierra Nevada
Author: Verna R. Johnston
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000-12-25
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0520224884
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"[This] book is indeed a 'naturalist's companion,' one which will enhance anyone's time in the Sierra Nevada. . . . Johnston focuses on what we are most likely to see by carefully choosing and then highlighting important and characteristic species; her descriptive passages are a pleasure."—Ann Zwinger, author of Yosemite: Valley of Thunder
History of the Sierra Nevada
Author: Francis P. Farquhar
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2007-10-15
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780520253957
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the time it was sighted by Spanish explorers in the eighteenth century through the creation of the John Muir trail, the building of the Hetch Hetchy Dam, and the founding of the Sierra Club, the great snowy range of California has provided fulfillment to generations of trappers, immigrants, engineers, naturalists, and tourists. Now a mountaineering classic, this pioneering book was the first to synthesize into a single, riveting narrative all of the varied aspects of human endeavor related to the history of the Sierra Nevada. Thoroughly illustrated with photographs, drawings, and maps, the book continues to be indispensable for any lover of the high country.
Sierra Nevada Textbook
Sierra Nevada Natural History
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
Author: Clarence King
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1997-03-01
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780803277830
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A bona fide classic, originally published in 1872, Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada is still exciting reading. It describes the perils and pleasures experienced by Clarence King (1842-1901) while conducting the first geological survey of California in the 1860s. His language was equal to the marvels he found, and here with unfading brilliance are his accounts of scaling such mountains as Tyndall, Shasta, and Whitney. The chapters on the Yosemite Valley and surrounding High Sierras were written while he was surveying the boundaries of a newly designated national park. There are also delightful vignettes of western characters, including a Sierra artist and a family of Pike County hog farmers. King, who in 1879 became the first director of the United States Geological Survey, will always be remembered for Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, which was praised by Wallace Stegner, Van Wyck Brooks, and Henry Seidel Canby as a watermark of frontier literature.
