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Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
- 作者: King, Clarence,
- 其他作者: Farquhar, Francis P.
- 出版: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press [1997].
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (320 pages) :illustrations.
- 標題: United States Local History. , TRAVEL Hikes & Walks. , Budget. , Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) Description and travel. , Travel , BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Historical. , Travel. , TRAVEL Museums, Tours, Points of Interest. , King, Clarence, , Reference. , Road Travel. , King, Clarence, 1842-1901 Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) , Mountaineering Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) , Historical. , King, Clarence, 1842-1901. , Parks & Campgrounds. , BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY , Special InterestAdventure. , Mountaineering. , TRAVEL Parks & Campgrounds. , TRAVEL Special Interest -- Adventure. , United States , United States Sierra Nevada. , Electronic books. , Regions & Countries - Americas. , Description and travel. , TRAVEL Budget. , History & Archaeology. , TRAVEL , TRAVEL Reference. , Mountaineering , Special InterestEcotourism. , Museums, Tours, Points of Interest. , Hikes & Walks. , Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) , TRAVEL Road Travel. , TRAVEL Special Interest -- Ecotourism.
- ISBN: 3736419562 , 9783736419568
- ISBN: 0803277830 , 9780803277830
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- 附註: "Bison books"--Page [1]. Originally published: Boston : J.R. Osgood and Co., 1872. Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-320).
- 摘要: A bona fide classic, originally published in 1872, Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada is still exciting reading. It describes the perils and pleasures experienced by Clarence King (1842-1901) while conducting the first geological survey of California in the 1860s. His language was equal to the marvels he found, and here with unfading brilliance are his accounts of scaling such mountains as Tyndall, Shasta, and Whitney. The chapters on the Yosemite Valley and surrounding High Sierras were written while he was surveying the boundaries of a newly designated national park. There are also delightful vignettes of western characters, including a Sierra artist and a family of Pike County hog farmers. King, who in 1879 became the first director of the United States Geological Survey, will always be remembered for Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, which was praised by Wallace Stegner, Van Wyck Brooks, and Henry Seidel Canby as a watermark of frontier literature.
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Mountaineers will realize, from these descriptions of Sierra climbs, how few dangers we encountered which might not have been avoided by time and caution. Since the uncertain perils of glacier work and snow copings do not exist in California, except on the northeast flank of Mount Shasta, our climbs proved safe and easy in comparison with the more serious Alpine ascents. And now that the topography of the higher Sierra has been all explored by the Geological Survey, nearly every peak is found to have an accessible side. Our difficulties and our joys were those of the pioneer. My own share in the great work of exploring the Sierra under Professor Whitney has been small indeed beside that of the senior assistants of the Survey, Professors Brewer and Hoffmann. Theirs were the long, hard years of patient labor, theirs the real conquest of a great terra incognita; and if in these chapters I have not borne repeated witness to their skill and courage, it is not because I have failed in warm appreciation, but simply because my own{x} mountaineering has always been held by me as of slight value, and not likely to be weighed against their long-continued service. There are turning-points in all men's lives which must give them both pause and retrospect. In long Sierra journeys the mountaineer looks forward eagerly, gladly, till pass or ridge-crest is gained, and then, turning with a fonder interest, surveys the scene of his march; letting the eye wander over each crag and valley, every blue hollow of pine-land or sunlit gem of alpine meadow; discerning perchance some gentle reminder of himself in yon thin blue curl of smoke floating dimly upward from the smouldering embers of his last camp-fire. With a lingering look he starts forward, and the closing pass-gate with its granite walls shuts away the retrospect, yet the delightful picture forever after hangs on the gallery wall of his memory.
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