The Mountains of California - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mountains of California write by John Muir. This book was released on 1894. The Mountains of California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Mountains of California
The Mountains of California - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mountains of California write by John Muir. This book was released on 1894. The Mountains of California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Famed naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) came to Wisconsin as a boy and studied at the University of Wisconsin. He first came to California in 1868 and devoted six years to the study of the Yosemite Valley. After work in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, he returned to California in 1880 and made the state his home. One of the heroes of America’s conservation movement, Muir deserves much of the credit for making the Yosemite Valley a protected national park and for alerting Americans to the need to protect this and other natural wonders. The mountains of California (1894) is his book length tribute to the beauties of the Sierras. He recounts not only his own journeys by foot through the mountains, glaciers, forests, and valleys, but also the geological and natural history of the region, ranging from the history of glaciers, the patterns of tree growth, and the daily life of animals and insects. While Yosemite naturally receives great attention, Muir also expounds on less well known beauty spots.
Flora of the Santa Cruz Mountains of California
Flora of the Santa Cruz Mountains of California - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flora of the Santa Cruz Mountains of California write by John H. Thomas. This book was released on 1991-05-01. Flora of the Santa Cruz Mountains of California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Santa Cruz Mountains, an area covering almost 1,400 square miles from San Francisco southward to the Monterey County line, are a part of the Coast Range of Central California. The Mountains and the adjacent lowlands have a rich vascular flora, and about 1,800 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and hybrids of ferns, conifers, and flowering plants, distributed among 168 families, have been reported from the region. This comprehensive flora, the first of the area, is designed for use by both the serious beginner and the trained botanist. The flora is illustrated by 250 line drawing and ten photographs. In addition, there is a map of the Santa Cruz Mountains area and a stratigraphic profile of the rock formations. The stratigraphic profile and a section on geology have been contributed by Dr. Earl E. Brabb of the United States Geological Survey. Distributional notes, keys to families, genera, and species, pertinent synonymy, a glossary of technical terms, an index of place names, and common0name and scientific-name indexes form the body of the text. The Introduction contains a description of the geography of the Santa Cruz Mountains and adjacent lowlands, seconds on the geology and climate, a brief discussion and analysis of the vegetation and floristic affinities of the area, and a history of past botanical collecting. A selected list of references has been appended to allow the interested individual to pursue his studies further.
The Mountains of California
The Mountains of California - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mountains of California write by John Muir. This book was released on 2019-07-18. The Mountains of California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Go where you may within the bounds of California, mountains are ever in sight, charming and glorifying every landscape. Yet so simple and massive is the topography of the State in general views, that the main central portion displays only one valley, and two chains of mountains which seem almost perfectly regular in trend and height: the Coast Range on the west side, the Sierra Nevada on the east. These two ranges coming together in curves on the north and south inclose a magnificent basin, with a level floor more than 400 miles long, and from 35 to 60 miles wide. This is the grand Central Valley of California, the waters of which have only one outlet to the sea through the Golden Gate. But with this general simplicity of features there is great complexity of hidden detail. The Coast Range, rising as a grand green barrier against the ocean, from 2000 to 8000 feet high, is composed of innumerable forest-crowned spurs, ridges, and rolling hill-waves which inclose a multitude of smaller valleys; some looking out through long, forest-lined vistas to the sea; others, with but few trees, to the Central Valley; while a thousand others yet smaller are embosomed and concealed in mild, round-browed hills, each, with its own climate, soil, and productions.
MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA
MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA write by JOHN. MUIR. This book was released on 2018. MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
