My first summer book5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This recording commemorates the 140th anniversary of that first summer. Muir spent the rest of his life working to preserve the high Sierra, believing that “the clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” John Muir (1838-1914) was born in Dunbar, Scotland and grew up in Wisconsin, USA. The antics of the smallest “insect people” amazed him as much as stunted thousand-year old Juniper trees growing with inconceivable tenacity from tiny cracks in the stone. After work in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, he returned to California in 1880 and made the state his home. He first came to California in 1868 and devoted six years to the study of the Yosemite Valley. From French Bar to Mono Lake and the Yosemite Valley, Muir was awestruck by everything he saw. Famed naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) came to Wisconsin as a boy and studied at the University of Wisconsin. The journal of nature-lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California’s Sierra Nevada range. Famed naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) came to Wisconsin as a boy and studied at the University of Wisconsin. Download cover art Download CD case insert My First Summer in the Sierra ![]()
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