The Mountains of California by John Muir

An eloquent celebration of the beauty of California's mountains. With a poet’s sensitivity and a naturalist’s eye, Muir describes the glacier meadows, the incomparable Sierra Nevada terrain, the exhilaration of mountain climbing. He writes of the graceful Douglas squirrel: playful, self-reliant, energetic; the Water Thrush, who feeds on water insects in the currents and streams of the Sierra; and the wild mountain sheep who leap from precipice to precipice with sure-footed ease. The Mountains of California is an affecting celebration of raw nature by one of its most ardent defenders.

Doubleday Anchor 1961 paperback in good condition.