America's Magnificent Mountains

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"y^limb the mountains and get their good tidm ings," urged pioneer conservationist and naturalist John Muir. The writers and photographers who produced this volume took his advice. They explored sections of nearly a dozen North American mountain ranges chosen for their varied attractions. In these 208 pages you will share the good tidings they found. They hiked the rugged wilderness of California's Sierra Ne vada, and snowshoed up a wintry ridge in the glacier-crowned Cascade Rangé. In Canada's Coast Mountains they circled above Mount Waddington, highest peak entirely within British Columbia, after meeting the woman who first climbed its northwest summit in 1928. You will jóin in a traverse of North America's mightiest mountain, 20,320-foot-high McKinley, and feel its lashing winds, bittér cold, and blowing snow. In contrast, you'll sample the delights of Aspen, Colorado-a cosmopolitan resort community in the heart of the Rockies whose offerings rangé from bluegrass music to... Tovább

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"y^limb the mountains and get their good tidm ings," urged pioneer conservationist and naturalist John Muir. The writers and photographers who produced this volume took his advice. They explored sections of nearly a dozen North American mountain ranges chosen for their varied attractions. In these 208 pages you will share the good tidings they found. They hiked the rugged wilderness of California's Sierra Ne vada, and snowshoed up a wintry ridge in the glacier-crowned Cascade Rangé. In Canada's Coast Mountains they circled above Mount Waddington, highest peak entirely within British Columbia, after meeting the woman who first climbed its northwest summit in 1928. You will jóin in a traverse of North America's mightiest mountain, 20,320-foot-high McKinley, and feel its lashing winds, bittér cold, and blowing snow. In contrast, you'll sample the delights of Aspen, Colorado-a cosmopolitan resort community in the heart of the Rockies whose offerings rangé from bluegrass music to classical ballet, from lessons in white-water kayaking to seminars on foreign policy. Far to the south, in Mexico's Sierra Madre, you'll take up a chili mountaintop vigil awaiting sunrise with Tepehuan Indians for whom the mountain is sacred. A vastly different tradition unfolds in Tennessee, as old-timers spin tales of moonshining and suggest home remedies handed down by generations of settlers in the Great Smoky Mountains. Finally, you'll meet farmers in Vermont's Green Mountains and taste maple syrup fresh from the boiling pan, and you will visit a natural garden of alpine plants on Mount Washington in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Firsthand reporting and more than 180 photographs convey the grandeur of somé of the continent's most inspiring scenery, provide glimpses of fleeting wild flowers and elusive animals, and record memorable portraits of people who live and work in America's magnificent mountains. Morning sun begins to bum away mists concealing glaciated ridges and valleys of Washington's Cascades. In the distance ríses Mount Rainier. Americans find in their mountains endless challenge and inspiration. FARRELL GREHAN Vissza