Muir walked into Yosemite in 1868 and spent the rest of his life explaining it. Here are the approach and the valley floor, the waterfalls measured and loved in the same breath, the glaciers that carved it, the winter storms, the sequoias of the Mariposa Grove — and the closing chapter on Hetch Hetchy, written as the dam that drowned it was being built.
The classic account of Yosemite, and the last stand for its lost twin. Download the free EPUB.