Author : John Muir
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Mountaineering Essays by : John Muir
Download or read book Mountaineering Essays written by John Muir and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains eleven mountain adventures, from the high Sierras in California to first ascents in Alaska. In each John Muir, who founded the Sierra Club in 1892, maintains a careful and subtle balance between the physical and symbolic aspects of ascending or observing the sublimity of his surroundings. Mountains are for him a source of discovery, not merely of new geography, but also of the inner human, and they represent a supreme test and an affirmation of the human spirit.