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John Muir wrote many wonderful books about his travels, but one
story-about his long walk from San Francisco to Yosemite-is one
book he did not author himself. In April 1868, a very young John
Muir stepped off a boat in San Francisco and inquired about the
quickest way out of town. "But where do you want to go?" was the
response, to which Muir replied, "Anywhere that is wild." Using
Muir's personal correspondence and published articles, Peter and
Donna Thomas have reconstructed the real story of Muir's literal
ramblings over California hills and through dales, with lofty
Sierra Nevada peaks, Englishmen, and bears mixed in for good
measure. The trip is illustrated by charming cut-paper
illustrations that take their inspiration from Muir's love of
nature. John Muir's story-telling is so compelling that even 150
years later, seeing the world through his eyes makes us want to
head out into the wild.
This book is really three books in one. It is a guidebook for a
walking/cycling route across California that follows John Muir's
footsteps from San Francisco to Yosemite via the Pacheco Pass. It
is an adventure book, telling the story of Peter and Donna Thomas'
2006 ramble across California to discover that route. And finally
it is a history book, presenting in its entirety and for the first
time, the complete story of John Muir's first trip to Yosemite.
That trip was taken in 1868, the year before Muir's "First Summer
in the Sierra," and it has never been published before, existing in
obscurity, in Muir's various writings, until it was reconstructed
by Peter and Donna in preparation for their walk to Yosemite in his
footsteps.
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