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In the summer of 1869, Scottish immigrant John Muir worked as a shepherd in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. The diary he kept during this time was later adapted into My First Summer in the Sierra, which was published in 1911. His record describes the majestic vistas, flora and fauna, and other natural wonders of the area. Having inspired millions to visit the area, today Muir is recognized as one of the most important and influential naturalists...
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In one of his first books, "The Mountains of California", John Muir, famed naturalist, environmentalist, and author, recounts his travels through the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite Valley. First published in 1894, "The Mountains of California" is a captivating and vivid portrait of the raw beauty of this spectacular place. He takes the readers on a tour of the wonders that abound, writing "Go where you may within the bounds of California, mountains...
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Sierra Club exhibit format volume 9
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Sierra Club
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1964
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167 p. : col. ill., facsims. ; 25 cm.
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California natural history guides volume 80
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University of California Press
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c2006
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ix, 453 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 19 cm.
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California natural history guides volume 73
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University of California Press
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c2004
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xvi, 439 p., [136] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 21 cm.
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Ruby McGavin novels volume 2
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"Ruby never thought she'd return to Cardinal, but she's hoping the place and people who gave her so much can give her brother Nash-who's been drowning in drink in Nashville-the fresh start he so desperately needs. Saddlemaker Lucas McGavin is thrilled that Ruby has come back. He hasn't given up on his love for her, despite the awkward fact that she is his brother's widow, and he's well aware that this may be his last chance to win Ruby's heart. When...
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Author Solutions
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2014
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295 p. ; cm
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"Mountain snow is the Western United States' greatest fresh water reservoir. The men and women measuring this resource in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California regularly ski across 12,000 foot passes and at night must dig into rock and log cabins for shelter. On these monthly survey trips they will often ski over 100 miles and climb and descend 25,000 to 30,000 feet along the spine of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. In this actual account of a snow...
14) Old bones
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Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 1
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Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with...
15) Cross-country skiing in the Sierra Nevada: the best resorts & touring centers in California & Nevada
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Distributed by W.W. Norton
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c2007
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ix, 86 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
16) Get a clue
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When Breanne Mooreland gets left at the altar, she decides the best thing to do is to go on her honeymoon alone. Of course, she loses her luggage along the way and ends up snowed in at a Sierra mountains lodge run by a noticeably quirky staff. And before she can order room service, she finds a naked?and gorgeous?man taking a shower in her suite who refuses to leave . . . Vice cop Cooper Scott is in serious need of a vacation. He?s not about to give...
19) High Sierra
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Criterion collection volume 1099
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Criterion Collection
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[2021]
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After a Prohibition-era gangster is released from prison, he longs for a simpler life, but he is lured back for one last heist by his old boss.
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Wilder brothers romances volume 1
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Numbers cruncher Katie Kramer has been the good girl all her life and yet she's still a fish out of water, still a square peg trying to fit into that round hole. So the real question is, can good karma be wished for? Because she's wishing, damn it. Wishing hard. At wits' end and rock bottom, she stares up at the night sky (barely visible past all the L.A. city lights) and falls asleep dreaming about a huge, twinkling, falling star, and makes three...
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