The Yosemite

In San Francisco, John Muir is asked where he wants to go. “To any place that is wild,” he replies—and sets off on foot for Yosemite.

In the spring of 1868, California’s hills are bright with flowers, and the Sierra rises beyond them like a wall of light. Muir has little money, is still recovering from a fever, and has abandoned a far more ambitious South American journey; now he must find his way into the wilderness he came to see. His walk becomes an encounter with deep glacial canyons, singing waterfalls and forests of colossal trees, each described with the delight of a man who would rather wander than hurry. What will he find when the wild path finally opens onto Yosemite?

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