My First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir.
Houghton Mifflin: 1911. Later impression of the first edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Shelf wear along the bottom of the boards that shows in white scuffing. Dings on the corners. The tip of the crown above the textblock is thinned. Gilded parts of the cover smudged. Leaves are clean with a few small tears from the pages being cut open for reading. 354 pages. Very good.
Who wouldn't want to go camping with the young Muir and learn how to see the beauty of the Sierras just as he is learning how to see them?
"While I was anxiously brooding on the bread problem, so troublesome to wanderers, and trying to believe that I might learn to live like the wild animals, gleaning nourishment here and there from seeds, berries, etc., sauntering and climbing in joyful independence of money or baggage, Mr. Delaney, a sheep-owner, for whom I had worked a few weeks, called on me, and offered to engage me to go with his shepherd and flock to the headwaters of the Merced and Tuolumne rivers, - the very region I had most in mind."