A beautiful copy of “The Yosemite” by John Muir with photographs by Galen Rowell. Each photograph is accompanied by a quote from Muir and an annotation by Rowell. El Portal: The Yosemite Association, 2001. A clean, crisp (basically unused) copy of this 20+ year old book. Paper cover (paperback). 12 x 10 inches. 223 pages. Original price $24.95. I am the original owner and never read it; just added it to my Yosemite collection. (see photos) This would make a wonderful gift for a Yosemite collector in your life. Or buy it for yourself!!!
BACKGROUND: John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914), also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America.
In the spring of 1869, John Muir was looking for means of support to fund his explorations of California’s Central Valley region. A ranch owner offered him a job herding sheep in the Sierra Nevada. As he explored the region, he jotted down his keen observations of the scenic countryside, and he eventually became a guide for some of Yosemite’s most famous visitors, including Ralph Waldo Emerson. Muir documented these experiences in “The Yosemite,” first published in 1912. It is at once a vivid, accurate description of the land and a passionate homage to nature.
BACKGROUND: Galen Avery Rowell (August 23, 1940 – August 11, 2002) was a wilderness photographer, adventure photojournalist and mountaineer. Born in Oakland, California, he became a full-time photographer in 1972. In 1972 Rowell sold his small automotive business and became a full-time photographer. Within a year, he had completed his first major assignment, a cover story for National Geographic. The story originated from an invitation by fellow photographer Dewitt Jones to help him on an assignment, when Jones was called away and Rowell suggested an ascent of Yosemite National Park's Half Dome that he documented by himself. When National Geographic received the pictures, they decided to do a story separate from Jones's, thus Rowell got his start. He pioneered a new kind of photography in which he was not merely an observer but considered himself a participant in the scenes that he photographed – he considered the landscape part of the adventure, and the adventure part of the landscape.
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