My first summer in the Sierra
By: John Muir ; introduction by Gretel Ehrlich
Contributors: Ehrlich, Gretel
Series: Penguin nature classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780140255706
Subjects: Natural history; Naturalists; Biography
Description: Presents the journal of naturalist John Muir in which he records his thoughts and experiences in the Sierra Mountains where he went for the first time in 1869 while working as an overseer hired on to help move a band of sheep to summer pasture.
Notes: Originally published: 1911.