My First Summer in the Sierra (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: John Muir
- First Published: 1911
- Time of Work: The summer of 1869
- Setting: Sierra Nevada and Yosemite, California
- Principal Characters: John Muir, Pat Delaney, Billy, Professor James Davie Butler
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Autobiography, Criticism, Mountain life, Exploration or explorers, Wildlife, Naturalists, Natural history
- Locales: Sierra Nevadas, Yosemite, CA
Form and Content
My First Summer in the Sierra, John Muir’s reverent acclamation of the beauty of the wilderness and particularly the Yosemite Valley in California, is a dated journal account of the summer days that Muir spent as a supervisor for a sheep drive into the cooler High Sierra meadows. With the exception of a four-page explanation of the circumstances that brought him to the foothills of the Sierra, the book is, for the most part, a daily record of Muir’s activities, discoveries, and philosophic musings as he accompanied the sheep drive up from the San...
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