My First Summer in the Sierra is a vibrantly detailed diary by John Muir of his first extended visit to the Sierra Nevada in what is now Yosemite National Park. A stirring work of wilderness literature, this book recounts Muir's 1869 stay with a crew of shepherds in the Sierra while he admired and studied the wildlife, vegetation, and geology.

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I: Through the Foothills with a Flock of Sheep

II: In Camp on the North Fork of the Merced

III: A Bread Famine

IV: To the High Mountains

V: The Yosemite

VI: Mount Hoffman and Lake Tenaya

VII: A Strange Experience

VIII: The Mono Trail

IX: Bloody Canyon and Mono Lake

X: The Tuolumne Camp

XI: Back to the Lowlands

My First Summer in the Sierra

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