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Free Download John Muir Trail: The Essential Guide to Hiking America’s Most Famous Trail by Elizabeth Wenk
English | August 30, 2022 | ISBN: 1643590839 | 328 pages | MOBI | 37 Mb
This authoritative guide for hikers and backpackers describes the 220-mile John Muir Trail, from Yosemite Valley to the summit of Mount Whitney.

Free Download John Muir, "Journeys in the Wilderness: A John Muir Reader"
English | 2010 | pages: 576 | ISBN: 1841586978 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
The name of John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both America and Britain. Born in Dunbar in the east of Scotland in 1838, Muir is famed as the father of American conservation, and as the first person to promote the idea of National Parks. Combining acute observation with a sense of inner discovery, Muir’s writings of his travels through some of the greatest landscapes on Earth, including the Carolinas, Florida, Alaska and those lands which were to become the great National Parks of Yosemite and the Sierra Valley, raise an awareness of nature to a spiritual dimension.These journals provide a unique marriage of scientific survey of natural history with lyrical and often amusing anecdotes, retaining a freshness, intensity and brutal honesty which will amaze the modern reader. This collection, including the never-before-published "Stickeen", presents the finest of Muir’s writings, and imparts a rounded portrait of a man whose generosity, passion, discipline and vision are an inspiration to this day.

Free Download Tony Perrottet, "John Muir’s Yosemite"
English | 2014 | pages: 27 | ASIN: B005AJAMXG | EPUB | 8,6 mb
John Muir, the father of conservation, found his calling in the California wilderness known as Yosemite. Here, in this short-form book from award-winning journalist, author, and frequent National Public Radio contributor Tony Perrottet, is the story of Muir and the national park he helped create.

Free Download Wildflowers of the High Sierra and John Muir Trail by Elizabeth Wenk
English | July 1, 2018 | ISBN: 1643590073 | 224 pages | EPUB | 87 Mb
This new book by Sierra expert Elizabeth Wenk includes photos and descriptions of approximately 300 species of wildflowers and flowering shrubs in the High Sierra. Focused on areas above 8,000 feet in elevation from Yosemite south through the Whitney Region, by restricting the collection of species to higher elevations, the book can include all commonly seen species and nearly half of all higher elevation species in a compact guide. Make plant identification more approachable to hikers, this book differentiates between species using features easily identifiable to a non-botanist. Descriptions include the species’ common and scientific names, family name, growth form, flowering time, elevation range, region, specific locations on popular trails, and how to identify the plant using color, petal number, leaf shape, height, and more.