Yosemite

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Kenneth Brower's earliest memories include visits to Yosemite. Born in San Francisco in 19H, he has chronicled a lifelong interest in nature, ecology, and wilderness in several volumes, including The Starship and the Canoe. His hooks,
as well as articles in National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, and other magazines, have taken him to Alaska, Borneo, and Australia. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, Corrine, and children, Stephanie and Davey, and is now at work on a book about rainforests.

I* beauty and the grandeur of Yosemite National PaA beclcon 3.5 million visitors each year. Some of them are rock-climbers, come to challenge Yosemite's granite. Some, laden with packs en route to the sparsely traveled backcountry, see the valley as a way station to sohtude. By far the greatest number, however, journey to Yosemite to experience the views from the valley. This volume, vvdth more than 120 color photographs, reveals the majesty of this jewel of the... Tovább

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Kenneth Brower's earliest memories include visits to Yosemite. Born in San Francisco in 19H, he has chronicled a lifelong interest in nature, ecology, and wilderness in several volumes, including The Starship and the Canoe. His hooks,
as well as articles in National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, and other magazines, have taken him to Alaska, Borneo, and Australia. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, Corrine, and children, Stephanie and Davey, and is now at work on a book about rainforests.

I* beauty and the grandeur of Yosemite National PaA beclcon 3.5 million visitors each year. Some of them are rock-climbers, come to challenge Yosemite's granite. Some, laden with packs en route to the sparsely traveled backcountry, see the valley as a way station to sohtude. By far the greatest number, however, journey to Yosemite to experience the views from the valley. This volume, vvdth more than 120 color photographs, reveals the majesty of this jewel of the Sierra Nevada, John Muir's "Range of Light."
These pages chronicle how rivers of ice shaped the valley and relate the saga of Yosemite—from the time it was the secret refuge of the Ahwahneechee Indians through its first one hundred years as a national park.
Author Kenneth Brower writes with insights gained from generations of family involvement in the park. From simple lichens to giant sequoias that tower 300 feet, from shy coneys and pikas to ever present coyotes and black bears, Brower details the captivating variety of Yosemite's plants and animals. He portrays, too, the people. Among them: Park historian Jim Snyder shares his fascinarion with the ax blazes of bygone sheepherders and cavalrymen, Julia Parker crafts traditional Indian baskets, and photographer Ansel Adams reveals his artistic genius.
Despite concerns about crowds of visitors straining park resources, Brower remains optimistic, noting that tourists arrived in the valley in 1855, only four years after volunteer militiamen entered it. "I can still spend an uncrowded afternoon walking the perimeter of the valley," Brower writes. "The message of Yosemite National Park, after a hundred years, is not how badly the park is run, but how well." Vissza