The Mountains of California

John Muir's book is detailed and focuses on the value and beauty of the trees in the Sierra. It's a typically detailed book, which although written many decades ago is fresh and appropriate to those wanted to conserve trees etc...and still enable tourists to see them with respect

I love these because they are very spiritual and they are very well known authors.I also love choirs and all beautiful music

After years of seeing wonderful quotes from books by John Muir, I finally bought The Mountains of California, and it simply bowled me over. Here is a man whose writing is informed and beautifully poetic. He wrote with a broad knowledge of geology, botany, meteorology, and a giant love of the natural world around him. If you are AT ALL interested in nature, and would like to read someone who is not dry or boring, his writing will sweep you up.

Bought to replace an old paperback I discarded to Oxfam for some reason. This is more scientific observation than travel, but it's a pioneer effort in more ways than one. I want to go there.

John Muir brings the natual world to life with his vivid descriptions of the unmatched beauty of the California mountian tops. He is able to take the reader on a journey to another place and another time.